Re: Gnome chose Git

[Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Pat Notz venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 14:43:
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Michael J Gruber
>> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>> Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 12:23:
>>>> FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
>>>> Subversion to Git:
>>>>
>>>>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134
>>>
>>> Good choice :)
>>>
>>> Interestingly, they seem to go the svn-all-fast-export route.
>>>
>>> Also, they need push tracking for pushing through ssh, which is a common
>>> requirement for many large projects. Do we have something to support
>>> that? git-notes comes to my mind.
>>>
>>> Their current approach is writing to a single log file (receive-hook).
>>> That may support a linear push history best, but looking up who pushed
>>> what, given "what"?
>>>
>>
>> That's also something we do.  Since the post-receive hook gives you
>> the refname and the old and new refs you should have everything you
>> need.  We basically record the user name, UTC timestamp and the ref
>> info.  With a little bit more scripting you should be able to figure
>> everything else out (though post-receive isn't called for local
>> commits).
>>
>
> I know the info is there. It might just make more sense to have it in
> the git repo the way notes are/will be: It's public, it's connected to
> the commits, it's tamper proof (anyone would notice rewrites).
>

Ahh, yes.  We'd like that too.

> Michael
>
> P.S.: Was this intentionally off-list? Just in case I respected it.
>

Oops, sorry about that.  Fixed.