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Re: git conversion of GCC wwwdocs repository
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:16 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 21:46, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > Would anyone like to make any comments on this conversion from CVS to git?
> >
> > It looks pretty good. I note that the author map just uses the
> > committer's current email address, meaning I have commits using my
> > @redhat.com address nearly a decade before I started working at Red
> > Hat. But that's a small price to pay for moving from CVS to Git in my
> > opinion. And t's arguably correct to have all my commits under one
> > identity rather than several different ones anyway.
>
> If people prefer to use @gcc.gnu.org addresses, that's a small matter of
> adjusting the postprocessing of the author map from the gcc-conversion
> repository to replace the addresses there with username@gcc.gnu.org while
> keeping the names from that author map. (The postprocessing is needed
> anyway for this conversion because cvs-fast-export uses a more restricted
> author map syntax than reposurgeon does. Because there is no ChangeLog in
> wwwdocs, more sophisticated systems for identifying the relevant email
> address for each commit from the ChangeLog aren't practical the same way
> they are for the main GCC repository.)
That would be my preference.
Jason