Re: Totem Git repository commit message oddity

[Kristian Høgsberg <krh redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:50 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> 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.

I posted a description of the conversion tools and why we're reimporting
from cvs a few months back:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-January/msg00021.html

cheers,
Kristian