Commit messages and the move to git

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 23:52, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> I've just pushed a new trial conversion:
>
> https://gitlab.com/rearnsha/gcc-trial2-20191130
>
> The main differences between this and the previous trial are:
> - The author attributions should now be fixed, please let me know if you
> see any anomalies in this respect.
> - the emptycommit-* tags/branches are now gone.
> - the 'tags' used for revert and backport now use more gittish style
> revert: and backport:
> - the log entries for c++ style functions containing :: are now handled
> correctly by my summary generation script.
>
> Other issues are still being worked on.

There's a bogus libstdc++ directory at the top level. That hasn't been
present for nearly 20 years, so some commit that should have deleted
it seems to be missing or incorrect.