Re: GIT conversion: question about tags & release branches

[Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse dot cz>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 09 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have question about release branches and release tags. For the current
> git mirror, we do have release tags living on release branches. Example:
>
> commit 64e1a4df1bc9dbf4cedb3a842c4eaff6b3425a66
> Author: jakub <jakub@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 08:40:24 2019 +0000
>
>              * BASE-VER: Set to 9.2.1.
>      
>      
>      git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-9-branch@274276 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
>
> commit 3e7b85061947bdc7c7465743ba90734566860821 (tag: gcc-9_2_0-release) <- THE TAG
> Author: jakub <jakub@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 07:38:49 2019 +0000
>
>      Update ChangeLog and version files for release
>      
>      git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-9-branch@274274 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
>
> commit fc3f35e10b6ca627727d71c74fd5e76785226200
> Author: gccadmin <gccadmin@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 00:16:21 2019 +0000
>
>      Daily bump.
>      
>      git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-9-branch@274271 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
>
> while the reposurgeon git has:
>
> commit a9044428b313402507aa047a17e6ea10f63b2b8b
> Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 10:40:24 2019 +0200
>
>      * BASE-VER: Set to 9.2.1.
>      
>      From-SVN: r274276
>
> commit d46878c3cce3be8f6c8878be8af326adecbb8ec6  <- THE TAG IS MISSING HERE
> Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:49 2019 +0200
>
>      Update ChangeLog and version files for release
>      
>      From-SVN: r274274
>

I use the release tags every now and then so this caught my attention
but I do not understand what the problem is?

In the gcc-reposurgeon-7a conversion, there is a tag called
gcc_9_2_0_release:

mjambor@virgil:/space/mjambor/gcc/newconv/gcc-reposurgeon-7a.git$ git log -1 gcc_9_2_0_release
commit 56bc3061f168c39a85117d4daefc2d5c0e4edb91 (tag: gcc_9_2_0_release)
Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:59 2019 +0200

    Tagging source as tags/gcc_9_2_0_release
    
    From-SVN: r274275

Even when I query the commit directly, it shows it is tagged:

mjambor@virgil:/space/mjambor/gcc/newconv/gcc-reposurgeon-7a.git$ git log -1 56bc3061f168c39a85117d4daefc2d5c0e4edb91
commit 56bc3061f168c39a85117d4daefc2d5c0e4edb91 (tag: gcc_9_2_0_release)
Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:59 2019 +0200

    Tagging source as tags/gcc_9_2_0_release
    
    From-SVN: r274275


in gcc-reposurgeon-7b it is called releases/gcc-9.2.0

commit 56bc3061f168c39a85117d4daefc2d5c0e4edb91 (tag: releases/gcc-9.2.0)
Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:59 2019 +0200

    Tagging source as tags/gcc_9_2_0_release
    
    From-SVN: r274275

It seems that reposurgeon conversion has a commit representing the
revision r274275 whereas git mirror does not, but that does not seem to
be too bad?

> That's when I do git log parent/gcc-9-branch (git log origin/releases/gcc-9 respectively).
> And git log releases/gcc-9.2.0:
>
> commit 56bc3061f168c39a85117d4daefc2d5c0e4edb91 (tag: releases/gcc-9.2.0)  <- THE TAG
> Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:59 2019 +0200
>
>      Tagging source as tags/gcc_9_2_0_release
>      
>      From-SVN: r274275
>
> commit d46878c3cce3be8f6c8878be8af326adecbb8ec6
> Author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@gcc.gnu.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 12 09:38:49 2019 +0200
>
>      Update ChangeLog and version files for release
>      
>      From-SVN: r274274
>
> I see it useful to have the release tags on release branches.
> Thoughts?

Thinking about it, assuming the reposurgeon is the way to go, did we
decide whether it's going to be the a or b variant?  I like the tags in
the B version better, but it does not seem to have all the branches, I
mean:

mjambor@virgil:/space/mjambor/gcc/newconv/gcc-reposurgeon-7a.git$ git branch | wc -l
536

mjambor@virgil:/space/mjambor/gcc/newconv/gcc-reposurgeon-7b.git$ git branch | wc -l
38


I did clone both with --mirror.

Thanks,

Martin