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

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 09.10.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Daniel J Sebald:


> The above is a good match in terms of files that changed and the change 
> log for that day.  Hence, in this case we would substitute Author hhhh 
> bbbbbb  <xxxxxx@xxxxxx> for bbbbbb <bbbbbb>

It's also kind of a non-example, given that with an authormap file in 
place, there would be nothing left to substitute: i.e. my full name and 
address would already be in git log.

[...]

> I think doing a parallel reconstruction of a tagged version in both CVS 
> and git (or SVN) with the idea in mind of making them file-by-file exact 
> could lead to the most insight as far as alignment.  Those tags being 
> correct is actually a little higher priority than having the exact 
> contribution attributes by user per commit.

reposurgeon will do these checks automatically, and in my trial run 
there were essentially no differences found.

> So, when a release is done currently, are a collection of files grouped 
> into an archive file and that's the official release, sitting on a 
> server somewhere?  It's not the tagged files in the repository that is 
> considered the release?

They both are.  It's basically a required step while making a release to

1) check in what needs to be,
1a) repeat 1) until "make distcheck" finishes without errors
2) tag that state from your local working copy
3) check out a clean copy at that tag
4) "make dist" in there, too
5) verify that both tarballs are effectively identical.