On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:29:56PM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> After much thought about this subject, I went ahead and pushed a non
> fast forward update to the autotest repo, rewriting the project's
> history effectively, assigning authorship where it belongs and getting
> old cruft from the svn days.
> 
> We decided to do it because:
>  * It's more fair to the over 200 contributors we had over the years
> 
> $ git shortlog -s | wc -l
> 202
> 
>  * Stats do matter, with a more properly written history it'll be easier
> to generate relevant stats for people, using git.
> 
> So, let's consider this a much needed housekeeping initiative, and sorry
> for the inconveniences.

The result is much better than expected, very good work, totally
worth it.

Cheers
  - Ademar

> 
> Now, for 3rd party, I ask you guys to rebase. I did all my rebases using
> git format-patch and re-applying the patches cleanly on newly created
> branches, and you might well do the same (unless there's some fancy
> ninja git tool to do it without using patches at all). I'll be available
> to assist you, should you need any help.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Lucas
> 
> 
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-- 
Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.
Red Hat

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