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Re: onwards to git
- From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge at gnu dot org>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 21:11:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: onwards to git
- References: <49F89C2D.5060702@redhat.com><20090430083940.GD25844@fencepost.gnu.org><20090430211940.178A0FC3BF@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath wrote:
>> > We'll recreate the git archive once more from scratch.
>>
>> Doing so, consider fixing this: there are, in May 1996 for example, a
>> bunch of commits attributed to mib <uco-mib@gmx.at>, which is wrong -- as
>> it can be seen from the committed ChangeLog entries, these commits should
>> be attributed to Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG <mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
>
> In general we are not putting much effort into this sort of trivia. The
> git metadata (authors, dates, etc.) from the past is not something we'll
> ever rely on. (Indeed, if you go back far enough, the cvs metadata for
> that stuff is not entirely reliable either.)
>
> This particular case is easy to fix, since it's just an entry in the name
> translation table Jim already has. That was a case where the sourceware
> user name changed (perhaps the only such case): the old "mib" user in cvs
> is the "tb" user today. I think the most useful translation now is:
> Thomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org>
> So use that for mib, tb, and thomas.
Thanks.
I've adjusted the "mib" entry to map to the same RHS as "thomas":
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <thomas@gnu.org>
There is no "tb" username to convert.