[fossil-users] better git migration
Hello. I have a repository that I'd like to migrate to github (*ducks rotten fruit and vegetables*) but it's not clear to me that the existing export/import process can satisfy my requirements. Firstly: Every commit I've ever made to fossil has been PGP signed. The repository in question spans a couple of years and I've been the only committer. My PGP keys expire yearly, so all commits in the repository are signed by one of two keys. For reasons of least privilege, I tend to use different usernames on different machines, so although all the committers are me, they aren't necessarily all the same name. An initial run of fossil export | git fast-import seems to show no pgp signatures in the resulting git repository. This doesn't seem unreasonable, given that it's obviously not going to be possible to forge new signatures! Secondly: all of the committer names are... sort of bad. Most are of the form m0 m0 (m0 being the username I used there). I feel like fast-import may not be the way to go about this. I'm wondering if there's a way to: 1. Transform *all* committer names to a given value: I'd prefer to use a name and email address that matches my github name/email. 2. PGP sign all commits with the key with which they were originally signed (obviously, some of these keys have expired). Obviously, I'd like to preserve the original dates and times too. I could sort of imagine replaying and re-signing the original commits one-by-one to achieve the above, but I'm not sure how to go about this or if it's even feasible. Any help would be appreciated! M ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] better git migration
Thus said Ron W on Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:15:25 -0400: I would have thought this would have worked. But I don't know enough about how Fossil uses PGP to make signatures, nor how git-fast-export format might support signatures to speak to this. Fossil signs the manifest: https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/212114657df8d3ccf84ec056db4ca1c003253543?txt=1ln=2068 Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400055b27789 ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] better git migration
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 5:38 AM, org.fossil-scm.fossil-us...@io7m.com wrote: An initial run of fossil export | git fast-import seems to show no pgp signatures in the resulting git repository. This doesn't seem unreasonable, given that it's obviously not going to be possible to forge new signatures! I would have thought this would have worked. But I don't know enough about how Fossil uses PGP to make signatures, nor how git-fast-export format might support signatures to speak to this. Secondly: all of the committer names are... sort of bad. Most are of the form m0 m0 (m0 being the username I used there). As I recall, git-fast-export files can be edited, so you could write a script to replace the user names with your name and email address. Note that this would invalidate the signatures that do appear in the export file (if any are in it). 2. PGP sign all commits with the key with which they were originally signed (obviously, some of these keys have expired). Obviously, I'd like to preserve the original dates and times too. I could sort of imagine replaying and re-signing the original commits one-by-one to achieve the above, but I'm not sure how to go about this or if it's even feasible. Assuming that Fossil's PGP signatures aren't compatible (or otherwise can be stored) with git, you would have to use a script to re-sign the commits in git. I think you can use the fossil timeline command to get a list of all commits in your Fossil repo. I don't know how to get a list from a git repo. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
