[gst-devel] GIT conversion ... DONE

[Edward Hervey]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 09:49 +0000, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 07:15 +0100, Edward Hervey wrote:
> > Hello hackers,
> > 
> >   All the main GStreamer modules are now converted to git and up.
> > 
> >   You can view them here http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ 
> >   The url to access each module is at the bottom of each of those
> > modules.
> > 
> 
> Hey hey,
> 
> Thanks for getting the conversion done and everything online. Jonathon
> pointed to this commit as problematic:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=a3e95ebfc9586534fa26d7ea59f34987f6e78ad1
> 
> The author attribution is incorrect. I guess where there's one, there's
> others too. How would we go about fixing that now? Is it worth fixing?
> 
> J.

  I don't think this is a blocker issue. The authorname is still valid
in the commit message, and those are *historical* commits.

  After discussing in #gstreamer, we can add graft points later on if we
actually see actual problematic issues/commits without modifying the
head commit sha1 (and therefore not screwing up everybody
cloning/branching off the repositories).

   Edward

> 
> 
> >   The next steps are:
> >   * Finishing/activating the post-commit hook to send mails to the
> > commit mailing-list
> >   * Convert the GStreamer website pages containing cvs information to
> > mention the new git urls/usages.
> >   * Update the GitMigration wiki page, and migrate some information from
> > that page to gstreamer/docs/
> >   * Hacking
> > 
> >   I have currently got to leave for a conference dinner at LCA, but will
> > be back online after that to finish those.
> > 
> >   The last step (hacking) can be done without me being online :)
> >   Just remember that the decision was made that we no longer commit
> > changes to the ChangeLog file but only in the commit entry. The
> > ChangeLog files will be automatically generated at (pre-)release time
> > using a script mentionned in the GitMigration wiki page.
> > 
> >   Thanks to Daniel Stone from freedesktop.org for the help in the
> > administration side of things.
> > 
> >    CVS is dead, long live GIT !
> > 
> >      Edward
> > 
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