[m-rev.] Converting to Git.

[Paul Bone]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 03:44:50PM +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:57:21 +1100, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:07:20PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Mercury is now converted to git and uploaded to github.
> > > 
> > > I notice you've shifted tests directory into the main repository
> > > (which is fine),
> > > however we still need the benchmarks directory from the old CVS repository
> > > as well.  (IMO, it may as well go in the main repository as well.)
> > 
> > I can re-do the conversion so that we get the history of benchmarks inline
> > with the main repository (the way I've done for tests).  Or I can just add
> > it at this point, throwing away the benchmark's repos history.
> > 
> > The former is more work, especially if people have already started using
> > this.
> 
> If you will be redoing the conversion, can you improve it a bit:
> 
> - add author names and email addresses
> - some summary lines unnecessarily duplicate the first line, e.g. 5eb9c3
> - some commits have a filename as the summary, e.g. 976dae
> - some commits have two blank lines following the summary

Unless there is a really compelling reason to re-do the conversion (if the
history of benchmarks/ was important for example) then I'd re-do it.
Otherwise I think the current conversion "is good enough".

These changes would be good, but at least to us (or anyone looking at the
authors page) we know who 'pbone" "zs" "wangp" etc are, and the formatting
doesn't matter much as all the right information is there.

> Otherwise, I'll fix those up next week.

That would create a history with new hash IDs, and therefore will break any
checkouts that others have made.  I know a few people who have already
cloned the repository, despite us not saying it's ready, so I'd rather not
do this.

How do others feel about using the current (good enough) conversion?
Or fixing up the issues identified by Peter?


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Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au