Re: [Gitstat-devel] [feature request 1783070] A list of things that are still Kernel centric

[<jun...@gm...>]

>This means that creating the taglist based on creatordate will
>not always give you the correct sorted list.

Hi.

When I heard your problem, I thought same solution with your colleague's
Anyway, I think that there is no front door in case of wrong creatordate.
If you find good solution, let me know it, please.
Good luck..!

On 8/30/07, Paul Vriens <pau...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a list of things I've found so far
>
> - several graphs/statistics use fixed header strings
> - tags are checked for being "< 8" when statistics are being generated
>
> I know that the "<8" works fine for the kernel and gets rid of the release
> candidates but it's highly inflexible.
>
> Another thing related to this. Wine was changed from CVS to GIT somewhere at the
> end of 2005. Everything was imported to GIT but the tags are not necessarily of
> the correct date. This means that creating the taglist based on creatordate will
> not always give you the correct sorted list.
> One of our Wine developers came up with the idea to:
> ==
> A possible solution would be to have gitstat check the commit referenced
> by the tag; that one has the right date. E.g "tag wine-0.0.2" references
> "commit 2c25c3e9442c69bd2402f94f264f0aafa58b00e0" which has as
> "CommitDate: Tue Jun 29 16:33:12 1993 +0000".
> ==
> Another thing that is maybe only relevant for Wine is that the structure of the
> versioning changed over time:
>
> first wine-0.0.2 -> wine-0.7
> then wine-<yymmdd> (from wine-940201 to wine-991212)
> then wine-<yyyymmdd> (from wine-20000109 to wine-20050930)
> now wine-0.9 0> wine-0.9.44 (current version).
>
> The tags are named the same of course.
>
> I don't know yet how to solve the above issues but will keep investigating.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
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