Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Converting AUCTeX CVS to a modern dVCS

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've experimented a bit more with converting the auctex CVS repository
> to git, and it seems to work out fine.  The history looks good and
> complete, and the files in a CVS checkout equal the files in a git
> working copy, except that $Id$ strings somehow got mangled.  In CVS, you
> have
>
>   $Id: preview.el,v 1.286 2011/01/23 18:53:55 angeli Exp $
>
> whereas in a git WC you have
>
>   $Id: preview.el,v 1.286 2011-01-23 18:53:55 angeli Exp $
>
> Not much of an issue.  I think we should get rid of these Id expansion
> thingies because they don't make much sense in a dVCS.

I think there is code deriving version numbers from those strings
somewhere, so you need to adapt this code to the new format or to the
removal of the strings.

> Another thing is that there are still a few committers I couldn't
> identify.  Basically, every committer listed on the savannah project
> page is listed with his full name and email address, but I don't have
> information about these guys:
>
>     Author: alanshutko <alanshutko>

Alan Shutko, copyright assigned to AUCTEX according to FSF records on
2005-03-25.

>     Author: amanda <amanda>

Per Abrahamsen.  Copyright assigned 2004-04-13.

>     Author: arafune <arafune>

Don't remember offhand.

>     Author: dakas <dakas>

Myself.  Assigned 2004-05-15

>     Author: dominik <dominik>

Carsten Dominik.  Assigned 2007-10-23

>     Author: krab <krab>

Kresten Krab Thorup.  Assigned 2006-09-18

>     Author: kurt <kurt>
>     Author: nabe <nabe>
>     Author: nixsf <nixsf>

Nick Alcock.  Assigned 2005-04-20

>     Author: uid66762 <uid66762>
>     Author: uid66917 <uid66917>
>     Author: uid67813 <uid67813>
>     Author: uid69014 <uid69014>
>
> If anyone knows one of them, please drop me a mail.

Don't know about arafune, kurt, nabe, and uid*.  Probably conversion
artifacts, some of them.  In general, those single-identifier email
addresses sound like the conversion lost some info from the name.

You should have found most of the above on fencepost.gnu.org in the
/home/g/gnuorg/copyright.list file.  That's where I looked.  As a
maintainer, you should have an account on that system.

All the best

-- 
David Kastrup