Hello, I am interested in converting the GNU Coding Standards CVS repository to Git. In order to achieve that I am using ‘reposurgeon’ and ‘cvs-fast-export’ which are the tools used and developped by Eric S. Raymond for converting for example Groff and Emacs repositories. this workflow is described more extensively here:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/dvcs-migration-guide.html The repository is pretty small so it will not be too complicated to move it to Git even if I am not an repository conversion expert. The first obvious question is to know if the current repository commiters/maintainers are willing to accept this conversion? If that is accepted, as first step I will need help with the commiter map. Here is the result from my first investigations:
3diff = Brian Youmans <[email protected]> arnold = Arnold Robbins <[email protected]> bkuhn = Bradley M. Kuhn <[email protected]> brandon = Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> brett = Brett Smith <[email protected]> cvs-fast-export = cvs-fast-export <cvs-fast-export> devnull = Joel N. Weber <[email protected]> djm = David J. MacKenzie <[email protected]> eggert = Paul Eggert <[email protected]> -0700 friedman = Noah Friedman <[email protected]> -0700 gnu = GNU <[email protected]> hgayosso = Hugo Gayosso <[email protected]> karl = Karl Berry <[email protected]> -0700 kwzh = Karl Heuer <[email protected]> meyering = Jim Meyering <[email protected]> orion = Orion Buckminster Montoya <[email protected]> paulv = Paul Visscher <[email protected]> pot = Francesco Potortì <[email protected]> rms = Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> -0400 roland = Roland McGrath <[email protected]> tower = Len Tower <[email protected]>
Additional informations regarding usual timezone and effective email address are very welcomed. I have put in place a Git repository for the conversion process, in order to make it possible for every one to follow and contribute: https://notabug.org/mthl/gnustandards-conversion -- Mathieu Lirzin
