On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:16 PM Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 21:46, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > > > > Would anyone like to make any comments on this conversion from CVS to git? > > > > It looks pretty good. I note that the author map just uses the > > committer's current email address, meaning I have commits using my > > @redhat.com address nearly a decade before I started working at Red > > Hat. But that's a small price to pay for moving from CVS to Git in my > > opinion. And t's arguably correct to have all my commits under one > > identity rather than several different ones anyway. > > If people prefer to use @gcc.gnu.org addresses, that's a small matter of > adjusting the postprocessing of the author map from the gcc-conversion > repository to replace the addresses there with usern...@gcc.gnu.org while > keeping the names from that author map. (The postprocessing is needed > anyway for this conversion because cvs-fast-export uses a more restricted > author map syntax than reposurgeon does. Because there is no ChangeLog in > wwwdocs, more sophisticated systems for identifying the relevant email > address for each commit from the ChangeLog aren't practical the same way > they are for the main GCC repository.)
That would be my preference. Jason
