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

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 9 October 2017 at 05:46, sfeam via gnuplot-beta wrote:
>
> I have a question though.
> We have a much longer list of contributors (as opposed to committers) because
> the project workflow historically had a large number of contributors funneling
> contributions through a small number of people with cvs commit privilege.
>
> I found 168 unique contributors listed in the ChangeLog files,
> compared to the 14 committers in your list above.
> Will the names of the true contributors be lost in the conversion process?
> That would be sad.

They are actually "lost" is CVS already, while they are (and will)
still (be) in ChangeLog.

What one *can* do with cvs2git conversion is to start with something
that looks like a reasonable conversion already and then make a map

    <commit-shasum> <author>

for all commits where the author doesn't match the committer. Then one
can run a script that changes the author of each individual commit.

Mojca


PS: w.r.t. the question of what could go wrong with my conversion,
this is what the "git cvsimport" complains about:

revision 1.3 of file docs/pdffigures.tex is tagged but not present
revision 1.3 of file docs/pdffigures.tex is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.117.2.7 of file src/mouse.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.31.2.1 of file src/datafile.h is tagged but not present
revision 1.50.2.9 of file config/makefile.mgw is tagged but not present
revision 1.31.2.1 of file src/datafile.h is tagged but not present
revision 1.117.2.7 of file src/mouse.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.50.2.9 of file config/makefile.mgw is tagged but not present
revision 1.3 of file docs/pdffigures.tex is tagged but not present
revision 1.3 of file docs/pdffigures.tex is tagged but not present
revision 1.464.2.38 of file src/graphics.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.464.2.38 of file src/graphics.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
revision 1.29 of file src/contour.c is tagged but not present
Skipping #CVSPS_NO_BRANCH