[Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git

[Martin Liška]

On 5/17/19 4:59 PM, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
>> On May 17, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/17/19 1:06 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>> That repository
>>> represents what I consider the collaboratively built consensus on such
>>> things as the desired author map (including handling of the ambiguous
>>> author name), which directories represent branches and tags, and what tags
>>> should be kept or removed - but building up such a consensus and keeping
>>
>> About the map. I agree with Richard that we should do best approach and not
>> to fully reconstruct history of people who has switched email address multi
>> times. I cloned git://thyrsus.com/repositories/gcc-conversion.git and made
>> a clean up:
>>
>> - for logins with duplicite emails I chose the latest one used on gcc-patches mailing list
>> - comments were removed
>> - a few entries contained timezone and I stripped that
>>
>> Final version of the map can be seen here:
>> https://github.com/marxin/gcc-git-conversion/blob/cleanup/gcc.map
>>
>> @Maxim: would it be possible to update your script so that it will use:
>> --authors-file=gcc.map ?
> 
> Should not be a problem.  I'll try that.
> 
>>
>> Is it desired for the transition to use the author map? Do we want it?
> 
> IIUC, the downside is that converted repo will not match current git mirror unless we do log re-writing, which would add extra info on the side.

Just to be clear: I don't insist on the authors map and I see @Segher is strongly against (@Richard probably as well).
I'm just saying that we have a pretty compete authors map and we can liberally decide whether to use it or not
(with all pros and cons).

Martin

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