Re: git migration: nnielsen -> stefw and seahorse-plugins

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:26 +0000, Stef Walter wrote:
>> I hope this is the right place to bring up these two small points about
>> the git migration:
>>
>>  * If possible, I'd like my real name 'Stef Walter' [1] to be used when
>>    migrating from from svn to git. I imagine we'll have full names in
>>    the commit strings?
> 
> I think the first step here is to get an account created for stefw. Just
> follow the normal accounts procedure there. (You can probably vouch for
> yourself as a maintainer...) Once that's working that you can request at
> accounts gnome org to disable the nnielsen account.
> 
> What we aren't going to do is rename the old account or delete it - that
> would create all sorts of potential problems.
> 
> Once the stefw account is created you can ask krh to adjust his mapping
> table to map 'krh' commits onto Stef Walters <stefw src gnome org>.
> The Committer: in will be right. If you've pasted the ChangeLog entries
> into the log entries, then whatever is in there will appear as Author:,
> since we extract Author from the svn log entries when possible.

Cool, thanks for the advice. Will get this started. Sadly the new
account page on mango.gnome.org is broken for me, will post separately
about that.

Cheers,

Stef