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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] scm next steps
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:48:29 -0700

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Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Jun 05, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
>> Anyway, pending comments, I'm going to go ahead and start a full import of
>> the p4 commit history into a new grimoire.git. When that's done I'll
>> probably ask for a few hours of no grimoire commits to any SCM and update
>> the new git with commits made to the other eval scms, then we'll come back
>> up with just the one git with all the history. We'd need to do this at
>> some point and if we do it now we will have less work to do later, assuming
>> we stick with git.
>
> I realized this import won't be as straightforward as the sorcery and
> cauldron ones were, since grimoire p4 is a moving target. We'll probably
> need to schedule some brief downtime so Tony can dump the db at me and I
> can get it imported into git. I'll try to get that scheduled at a most
> convenient time (not over a weekend).

To be safe, during the full git test we'll want to mark Perforce as
read-only (as Ladislav suggested I do per section earlier ;)) and
disable/remove mercurial and svn/svk.

> Also, this is the list of (minor) stuff we need to work on in git:
>
> - improve changelog merges
> - improve commit emails
> - better readability
> - better separation of commits
> - not listing merge commits
> - useful additional headers for sorting
> - git-cvsserver
>
> Anything else? I probably forgot some, it's early and I don't have the
> list in front of me.

Just auto generation of ChangeLog/HISTORY entries based off of the
commit message if we want to try that.

- -sandalle

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