Re: netfilter moving to git

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> There was confusion (in the git layer) how to handle the svn path
> reordering that took place over time, which Yasuyuki did a great job
> of clearing up. But making it a good git repository does not stop
> after importing and, probably git-tagging the SVN branches^W tags^W
> twigs. I mean hey, try to work with it like with the standards that
> git and linux set, like
> 
> $ git shortlog v1.4.0..HEAD --
> fatal: bad revision 'v1.4.0..HEAD'
> 
> Oh shoot, the tags are not the usual ones. Well, deducting a point
> and continuing the quest:
> 
> $ git shortlog svn_t_iptables_1_4_0..HEAD --
> fatal: bad revision 'svn_t_iptables_1_4_0..HEAD'

There is no 1.4.0 tag in SVN, so there's none in git.

> $ git shortlog svn_t_iptables_1_4_0rc1..HEAD -- | grep -v '^ '
> /C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Pablo Neira Ayuso/... (4):
> /C=EU/ST=EU/CN=Patrick McHardy/... (107):
> /C=JP/ST=JP/CN=Yasuyuki Kozakai/... (29):
> 
> Hm yeah X.509, not exactly git but.. *sigh*. Even so, the
> contributors should get their share in the release shortlog which,
> ignoring that moving to git was just recent, would also happen too
> seldom if things continue their way in that 6 month cycle.

Not sure what you're trying to say, what does the release cycle
have to do with anything?