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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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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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