Re: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/07/2017 02:32 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> For any volunteer thinking about taking on the transference from CVS to 
> git, my idea of what to do with the old ChangeLog is the following:  The 
> nice thing about git changesets is that one can do
> 
> git log
> 
> and then use the usual unix-like vi searching through the pager-log it 
> generates.  I wonder if as the very first changeset in the new 
> repository (or even if there is a comment associated with the "git init" 
> process) that we take the whole contents of the current ChangeLog and 
> copy that as the initial comment.  It will be big, but at least we can 
> then do a
> 
> git log
> 
> and that whole long ChangeLog history is right there at hand for 
> searching purposes along with all the change-logs that come after it.

I would add that if the CVS-to-git conversion process means that we 
couldn't put the ChangeLog's comment as the first entry, I think we 
could branch from the initial repository with a changeset consisting of 
the ChangeLog history as the first comment, and then rebase all the 
changesets onto that branch.  Maybe it doesn't make a difference where 
the ChangeLog contents appears in the log if all the comments for 
individual CVS changes are empty.

Dan