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

[Kristian Høgsberg <krh redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 20:21 -0400, 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.
> 
> (I actually got krh to adjust the map table to map owen => otaylor
> since I used to use 'owen' in CVS in the distant past...)

I updated the author map accordingly, nnielsen now maps to "Stefan
Walter <stefw src gnome org>".

> >  * The seahorse-plugins repository [2] should probably end up as it's
> >    own module rather than sharing one with seahorse.
> > 
> > How would I go about accomplishing the above points? If I could
> > contribute to help make them a reality in any way, I'd love to know.
> 
> Hmm, I'll have to defer to krh on whether we can do this during the
> import or not. It shouldn't be a problem (other than figuring out the
> magic invocation) for you to use git-filter-branch after the import to
> extract a subtree and then you can import that yourself as a new module.

It should be simple enough to split out the seahorse-plugins
subdirectory.  I've tried before but always ended up getting distracted
- I'll give it another shot today.

cheers,
Kristian