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

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> Am 11.10.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Ethan A Merritt:
> 
> >I do not know which email address Hans-Bernhard Broeker would prefer
> >
> >broeker =  Hans-Bernhard Broeker  <br...@ph...
> ><mailto:br...@ph...>>  Europe/Berlin
> 
> My physik.rwth-aachen.de address is gone, and has been for a while. I've
> kept using it as the check-in address out of tradition, mainly.
> 
> Please use broeker .at. users.sourceforge.net, instead.

Done.

> > > 3. I'm not clear on what ought to be excised from the repo. HBBroeker
> > > mentions dropping the faq module. Someone else (I think Mojca) had
> > > a pre-conversion sript that stripped out some stuff. A set of excisions
> > > you guys agree on - ideally expressed as a pre-conversion script  >
> >modifying the repo - is one thing we need.
> 
> Using reposurgeon, the 'faq' module is already excluded because its
> generated Makefile rule for SourceForge inputs only pulls one module at a
> time, so there's nothing to excise.  If anything, this module might best be
> converted independently, and the resulting git repo plunked into the new
> gnuplot git repo, e.g. into docs/old.

OK, this can be done.  I have successfully fetched the faq module

> > > there were some files on ther gitspace side that weren't in CVS (probably
> > > due to a botched CVS delete). This needs to be further investigated.
> 
> I didn't mention those before because I'm convinced the reconstruction is
> actually better than the original in this case.

That is a happy accident.

>cvsconvert gives me a state of the converted repository like this:
>
> > $ git status
> > HEAD detached at pre-pm3d-11
> > nothing to commit, working tree clean
>
>Back when that branch was current, there were indeed no log-rotated 
>ChangeLogs yet.
>
>	git checkout master
>
>makes ChangeLog.[0-6] appear.

Yes, it does.

It sounds, then, as though there are zero problems with the cvs-fast-export
conversion itself as it is.  The contributor map is complete; the author
map still needs to be merged.  I still need the ancient-release tarballs.
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