From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harvey Harrison Subject: Re: Git and GCC Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:47 -0800 Message-ID: <1196917487.10408.82.camel@brick> References: <4aca3dc20712051108s216d3331t8061ef45b9aa324a@mail.gmail.com> <20071205.182815.249974508.davem@davemloft.net> <4aca3dc20712051841o71ab773ft6dd0714ebc355dd5@mail.gmail.com> <20071205.185203.262588544.davem@davemloft.net> <4aca3dc20712051947t5fbbb383ua1727c652eb25d7e@mail.gmail.com> <1196915112.10408.66.camel@brick> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Berlin , David Miller , ismail@pardus.org.tr, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: gcc-return-142721-gcc=m.gmane.org@gcc.gnu.org Thu Dec 06 06:06:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcc@gmane.org Received: from sourceware.org ([209.132.176.174]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J08vB-0003wZ-JW for gcc@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:05:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 3662 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2007 05:04:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 3647 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2007 05:04:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (HELO rv-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.198.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:04:47 +0000 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so92188rvb for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.226.14 with SMTP id y14mr1731660rvg.1196917485507; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? ( [216.19.190.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l32sm88616rvb.2007.12.05.21.04.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Delivered-To: mailing list gcc@gcc.gnu.org Archived-At: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:54 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > > > If anyone recalls my report was something along the lines of > > git gc --aggressive explodes pack size. > [ By default, for example, "git svn clone/fetch" seems to create those > horrible fake email addresses that contain the ID of the SVN repo in > each commit - I'm not talking about the "git-svn-id", I'm talking about > the "user@hex-string-goes-here" thing for the author. Maybe people don't > really care, but isn't that ugly as hell? I'd think it's worth it doing > a really nice import, spending some effort on it. > > But maybe those things come from the older CVS->SVN import, I don't > really know. I've done a few SVN imports, but I've done them just for > stuff where I didn't want to touch SVN, but just wanted to track some > project like libgpod. For things like *that*, a totally mindless "git > svn" thing is fine ] > git svn does accept a mailmap at import time with the same format as the cvs importer I think. But for someone that just wants a repo to check out this was easiest. I'd be willing to spend the time to do a nicer job if there was any interest from the gcc side, but I'm not that invested (other than owing them for an often-used tool). Harvey