Re: NetworkManager core daemon moved to git

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

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.

it is actually pretty simple. I normally run a script like this:

	git-log | grep Author | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq

And then match the account names with /etc/passwd GECOS field to get th
real names. Then you only need to get the email address and these are in
the AUTHORS file (at least they should be). And from that information
your create your file for --authors-file command line for the intial
git-svn clone command to import everything.

Regards

Marcel