From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Donnie Berkholz Subject: Re: irc usage.. Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:49:33 -0700 Message-ID: <447D043D.1020609@gentoo.org> References: <447215D4.5020403@gentoo.org> <447231C4.2030508@gentoo.org> <447B6D85.4050601@gentoo.org> <46a038f90605291521q37f34209wd923608bdebb9084@mail.gmail.com> <447B7669.8050805@gentoo.org> <46a038f90605301531g4f8b37c7qab9a717833c64ebc@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90605301804u3beabf4ct97c8a0ea6ef7b995@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig268FCFECD5591FBF531B52D6" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Yann Dirson , Git Mailing List , Matthias Urlichs , Johannes Schindelin , Alec Warner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 31 04:49:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlGmJ-00054C-9J for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 04:49:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751572AbWEaCto (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 22:49:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751573AbWEaCto (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 22:49:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:38034 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751563AbWEaCtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 22:49:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.105] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042B1642C0; Wed, 31 May 2006 02:49:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060513) To: Martin Langhoff In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605301804u3beabf4ct97c8a0ea6ef7b995@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig268FCFECD5591FBF531B52D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/31/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> That gentoo repo has a lot of "duplicate" commits that cvsps will mark= as >> two separate commits because there's one commit for the files, and one= >> commit for whatever the "Manifest" file is. I wonder if those commits >> should generally be merged or something. >> >> That said, things like that are most easily fixed as a git->git update= >> (along with adding name translation), which can avoid re-writing the >> trees. >=20 > Yep, large projects often have good reasons to run custom imports, > merging certain commits, rewriting log messages (like the X.org guys > were doing). It can be done at the cvsimport stage or later -- I think > Pasky has a rewritehistory tool hidden somewhere in Cogito, but I > haven't used it. We've got a guy who got a Summer of Code project to work on CVS migration, so this could be something along his lines. Thanks, Donnie --------------enig268FCFECD5591FBF531B52D6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEfQRAXVaO67S1rtsRAl5/AJ9k6LmNuR+jLhg+o2mQNH/nFA60iACfWbvT ft5lVKRxm3LkcEgRG+/1zcY= =hPOm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig268FCFECD5591FBF531B52D6--