Re: New spin of repository conversion

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

On 10/18/2017 05:08 PM, Juhász Péter wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 13:58 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>> I've pushed a version including the 1.1 release in its tail, and all
>> previously missing tags should now be visible.
>>
>> There are somewhere around 275 commits with empty comment fields.
>> These should either have comments filled in or, if they are ChanegLog
>> singletons that need to be glued to another clique, I need to know
>> that.
>>
>> I've enclosed a file named EMPTY which is in the right format to be
>> read back in by reposurgeon. All of you, please fill in any comments
>> you can in the commits you're responsible for; if you want to clue me
>> in to a ChangeLog commit that should be squashed with the previous
>> one, put SQUASH in the comment field.  Don't alter the divider lines.
>>
>>
> 
> I've found a single instance of my name in the file, which incidentally
> points to an edge case: I had modified the Changelog file itself
> (fixing the date of the entry). Perhaps this warrants a SQUASH.

Those are the tricky ones I noted previously: editing some date or 
something.  My rule was that if only the ChangeLog changes, then the 
authorship would not be modified.  It would remain as the committer.


> I've also scanned through the commits attributed to me in the new git
> repo, and I strongly suspect that some of those were not done by me.
> E.g. 63bc0f364a43d74ceca514a1954e2efa6c4ad7f6,

This one, by search-backward-from-first-change rule, would go to

2011-11-14  Bastian M  <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>


> dc3d0aa052b1af8563624f46516f27def76fdb80, and

Same here, first change, searching backward points to

2011-11-14  Bastian M  <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>


> f2093b012b3b58842ae825439bfeec85b01fa8c3

Once again, searching backward from first change points to

2011-11-14  Bastian M  <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>

Dan


  are attributed to me but they
> were obviously committed by Bastian Maerkisch. (So I confirm his
> finding here). The reason indeed seems to be that unrelated changes by
> the same author, on the same day were squashed in the Changelog, and
> change-groups belonging to different authors, on the same day are
> listed in arbitrary order, even though this confuses the actual order
> of the changes.
> 
> best regards,
> Peter Juhasz