Re: git repository with fixed history ready

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Op maandag 22-03-2010 om 18:14 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Patrick
McCarty:
> On 2010-03-22, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Wow, this is very awesome!  That must have been a tremendous effort.  :)

Yes.

> Just a side note:  cloning over HTTP by default is really inefficient
> right now, so the download size of the above repo is ~900MB.  After
> running `git gc --aggressive', the repo shrinks to the normal size
> (~120MB).

Hmm, I saw that before and think I'd taken care of that.  Ah, I
see, only after the first stage.  I'm adding that, thanks.

> This is mostly true.  There are still some random commits that have
> CVS-style usernames.  For example, in the new repo,
> 
>   $ git show bc86bf
> 
> displays
> 
>   commit bc86bf019ae3d2f03c12e8b52527bd5eb48283f3
>   Author: jneem <jneem>

Ugh.  Then I'm missing some still.  Oh, I only rewrote
the CVS era, I should check/rewrite the GIT history
too.

> But, overall, there are relatively few of these cases.  Most of them
> have been fixed.

Yes, well, let's fix them all now :-)  I've put-up a new
version, but if you have suggestions for git-rewrite-authors.sh
in http://lilypond.org/~janneke/vc/lily-git.git please send
a patch ;-)

> I'm generally okay with this.  Of course, it would be optimal to fix
> only the "pre-Git" part of LilyPond's history, but I imagine that
> would take a lot of work.

Uh, that cannot really be done, all pre-git is in the current
archive too - if you want to cut that out, all committishes change
anyway.

> Thanks a lot, Jan.  This will be incredibly helpful for the Ohloh
> project page, too.

Yes, but I'm not sure if Ohloh is all that useful ;-)

Also, email addresses will change in the future, it's just
nice that totally unattributable fred@ is gone :-)

Greetings,
Jan.

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