From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: History cleanup/rewriting script for git Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:39:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20070417104520.GB4946@moonlight.home> <8b65902a0704170841q64fe0828mdefe78963394a616@mail.gmail.com> <200704171818.28256.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20070417173007.GV2229@spearce.org> <462521C7.2050103@softax.com.pl> <20070420155446.GA11506@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Harkes X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 20 20:39:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hey18-0000Hu-CS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:39:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767185AbXDTSjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:39:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767188AbXDTSjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:39:31 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59582 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1767185AbXDTSja (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:39:30 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2007 18:39:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp052) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2007 20:39:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19pqjlz9KppOuFz0/OA6+jxYbH3S+sJq0bZy1v1mu v0wCMLgQrrSTxa X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20070420155446.GA11506@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:43:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > Hmm. However, I have to say that cogito serves/d another purpose > > > quite well: Look at what came from cogito into git. Loads of useful > > > enhancements. So, I really have to point to "at this stage", because > > > that sure was not true 18 months ago. > > > > Absolutely. I think there are still some pieces of cogito that we > > might want to migrate into git too, although they're fairly esoteric > > (ie the whole history rewriting thing). And I think we still have some > > places > > I actually have a fairly simple history rewriting script (written in > python) that I used when I converted some CVS archives to git. Telling by your description, cg-admin-rewrite-hist is more capable. And I think it should not be too complicated to rewrite the cogito specific parts, what with the parts we added to Git with cogito as a model. And it is in Perl... which makes it more portable than Python in my part of the world. Ciao, Dscho