On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:57:01 -0600 (CST)
Mike Isely is...@isely.net wrote:
Mauro:
Do you not find it strange that you show up as the credited source for
my recent changesets on the summary page http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb?
(See 10236 - 10240.) I suspect it's because you cherry picked them,
but that doesn't make it right.
I could have sworn in the past that I've been able to pull in changes /
contributions into hg from other pvrusb2 users and successfully
preserved the credit in the change list summary. What's the problem
here?
Hi Mike,
This is due to a deficiency at mercurial. On git, there are two concepts on
their meta-tags: patch author and committer. Unfortunately, mercurial has only
one meta-tag: user.
When a patch is cherry-picked, mercurial will use the current user as his
user meta-tag. This indicates who applied the patch at the mercurial tree.
In order to preserve both information on our tree, we are using the user meta
tag for the committer, and the From: field at the patch description as the
patch author, as stated at README.patches.
The committer info is important to allow us to see from what tree a patch came.
The -git conversion scripts properly handle the From: info when giving the
credits for the patch.
Cheers,
Mauro
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