Re: NetworkManager core daemon moved to git



On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 15:51 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > > > > > The NetworkManager core daemon (the "NetworkManager" svn repository) has
> > > > > > been moved to git.freedesktop.org.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Since both the applet and the VPN daemons still require translation,
> > > > > > they still live at svn.gnome.org.  The VPN daemons have been moved from
> > > > > > inside the NetworkManager repository to their own top-level repositories
> > > > > > at svn.gnome.org.  All development of the core daemon's 0.6 branch, the
> > > > > > 0.7 branch, and 0.8/trunk will happen in the git repositories at
> > > > > > git.freedesktop.org.  Again, the applet and VPN daemons will continue to
> > > > > > live in gnome SVN for the time being.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Using git will allow us to, for example, quickly develop targeted
> > > > > > features and fixes in topic branches, and integrate them when they are
> > > > > > ready and pass tests with flying colors.  We can more easily prototype
> > > > > > things to see if they are good ideas, or if they are even feasible in
> > > > > > the first place.  It's faster to checkout and update that Subversion.
> > > > > > git cures cancer too.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > NetworkManager 
> > > > > > -----------------------------
> > > > > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
> > > > > 
> > > > > are you 100% sure you wanna screw up the authorship of the commits like
> > > > > this?
> > > > 
> > > > No.
> > > > 
> > > > > commit 0f8c3fb9ec15366b359a83737b88e47ff7d79a14
> > > > > Author: dcbw <dcbw 4912f4e0-d625-0410-9fb7-b9a5a253dbdc>
> > > > > Date:   Tue Dec 9 19:47:10 2008 +0000
> > > > > 
> > > > > You can have git-svn convert this into nice Dan Williams
> > > > > <dcbw redhat com> author details.
> > > > 
> > > > I used the current gnome git mirror and pushed the resulting branches to
> > > > fdo.  Presumably git-mirror.g.o had this already set up.  Perhaps they
> > > > didn't, and thus perhaps I have to do a git-svn checkout myself.
> > > 
> > > yes, you should stop the automatic import/mirror and do the initial
> > > conversion by yourself.
> > 
> > I assume you mean --use-log-author?  That appears to only look for
> > "From:" and "Signed-off-by" for the author, not the Gnome ChangeLog
> > format used in the commit messages like:
> > 
> > 2008-12-12  Dan Williams <my email com>
> > 
> > So I doubt it will buy me anything without me doing some perl hackery.
> 
> it will use the Subversion Unix name. For example dcbw and then your
> provide a file with Unix name <-> Name, Email mapping and it does the
> magic for you.

Cute.  It's probably easier just to hack perl.

Dan



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