Re: Trial git repo is back up

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

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> On 10/16/2017 01:17 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >Trial git repo is back up, with the conversion bug I previously noted fixed.
> 
> Generally, cloning seems to take longer than I had expected, given gnuplot
> is a rather lean project.  It could be that SourceForge is just slow.  The
> cloning seems "chunky" in the respect it loads a bunch of objects then sort
> of slows down; speeds up again, slows down.

There's a pack command that helps with that - I forgot to use it.  I'll
do it on the next version; I've added it to the conversion script.

> I don't see any authorship mapping; everything seems to appear as the
> committer is the author.  For example, I've searched "git log" for "Sebald"
> and only see my name appear in ancillary comments.  Never is my name/address
> as gotten from the ChangeLog record in the authorship line.

That's...very odd.  I'll look into it.

> Some entries near the beginning of the project, as viewed through gitg:
> 
> # Apr 15 1998, 20:16 Initial import of beta340.
> 
> In gitg, no file diffs appear.

I see it too.  Some kind of fluky CVS artifact - probably of no
significance. A pretty common sort of glitch in older repos.

> # Apr 15 1998, 20:16 *** empty log message ***
> 
> In gitg, "Loading diff..." never resolves.

I see two commits that could match that.  They're both huge tree imports;
I'm not surprised your differ does a semi-infinite grind.
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