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Subject: Re: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date: 2017-10-12 10:57:21
Message-ID: 20171012105721.GA11504 () thyrsus ! com
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Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de>:
> 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 <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de
> ><mailto:broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>> 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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