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Re: Git and GCC
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:54 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >
> > If anyone recalls my report was something along the lines of
> > git gc --aggressive explodes pack size.
> [ By default, for example, "git svn clone/fetch" seems to create those
> horrible fake email addresses that contain the ID of the SVN repo in
> each commit - I'm not talking about the "git-svn-id", I'm talking about
> the "user@hex-string-goes-here" thing for the author. Maybe people don't
> really care, but isn't that ugly as hell? I'd think it's worth it doing
> a really nice import, spending some effort on it.
>
> But maybe those things come from the older CVS->SVN import, I don't
> really know. I've done a few SVN imports, but I've done them just for
> stuff where I didn't want to touch SVN, but just wanted to track some
> project like libgpod. For things like *that*, a totally mindless "git
> svn" thing is fine ]
>
git svn does accept a mailmap at import time with the same format as the
cvs importer I think. But for someone that just wants a repo to check
out this was easiest. I'd be willing to spend the time to do a nicer
job if there was any interest from the gcc side, but I'm not that
invested (other than owing them for an often-used tool).
Harvey