On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:15:52AM +0100, Alp Toker wrote: > Thumbs up on this one. git certainly has the potential to make WebKit > development more accessible and transparent. > > It might be worth talking with other large projects that have migrated from > CVS or SVN (like xorg, freedesktop.org, wine) to see if they have any > useful commit history post-processing scripts or general hindsight advice. > > I've found that the point of migration is a good opportunity to scrub > project history a little. For example, I've written a tool (used in a > previous migration) that extracts authorship and reviewed-by information > from the commit logs and turns them into git's equivalent AUTHOR_ID, > COMMITTER_ID and Signed-off-by fields, cleaning up the commit log messages > as it goes and optionally eliminating all modifications to the "ChangeLog" > files. This makes the history retro-actively far more useful, making it > easier to revert old patches, do bisection searches, review old patches in > a new light etc. It's kind of like discovering a history you never knew > your project had ;-)
Signed-off-by should be for the patch author. For reviewers, it should be Acked-by for reviewers, or Reviewed-by when that appears for real [1] My 2cts, Mike 1. http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Defining_the_Reviewed-by_Tag _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
