Re: Totem Git repository commit message oddity

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 04/07/2009 02:39 PM, Robin Stocker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a look at the preview Git repository for Totem as this will soon
> be the main repository. And there's an oddity in the commit messages.
>
> The "svn path=...; revision=..." text is missing from commit messages
> up to revision 3812. Here's the commit corresponding to this revision:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/preview/totem/commit/?id=a9c05d7434e533d5be48c3b114603e721d5a49d3
>
> And here's the commit for r3813, which has the text:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/preview/totem/commit/?id=6125f8a78c9c1bac815691eff0eb33fcb870fcde
>
> What do you guys think could be the cause for this? And is it
> important enough to fix it? Knowing the SVN revision is useful because
> it is sometimes referenced in commit texts.

This is because the git migration is done by migrating CVS, and then SVN 
commits from after the CVS->SVN migration.  I'm not 100% sure why, but 
presumably this yields better results than doing a migration straight 
from SVN to git.

Sandy