Opie SCM migration

Hi all,

I am planning to migrate Opie's source code repository from CVS to git. CVS is
getting quite old and has been rather limiting for some time now, and git
seems like the natural alternative for an open project. While the CVS
repository will likely remain for reference I think it's desirable to transfer
all of the old history to git rather than starting from scratch, so that you
can see the full change history for all files there. Thus I will be using
cvs2git to perform the conversion.

One of the subparts of this conversion is to translate CVS committer names
into "name <email>" format. This required a little detective work on my part,
however using the public mailing list archives and some of my own knowledge I
was able to come up with the following (email addresses semi-obfuscated for
web purposes only):

  http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/CommitterNames

Most of the email addresses have been defaulted to username@...; for
a select few recent committers I have used email addresses that were used on
the mailing list. It's possible that I have made a mistake somewhere or even
that some committers would prefer a different email address to be used - I'm
happy to modify people's entries if they want.

I plan on doing the final conversion during this coming weekend, so if anyone
wants anything corrected please reply here or email me directly by Sunday.

Cheers,
Paul
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FYI I have decided to post the final migration until some time next week in
order to allow people more time to respond.

Cheers,
Paul
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[Sybren A. Stüvel]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:15:53PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> FYI I have decided to post the final migration until some time next week in
> order to allow people more time to respond.

Just out of curiosity: why Git? To me personally Mercurial is a much
easier to use, and also very powerful system. Somehow I never got the
hang of git, whereas Mercurial came natural to me the moment I started
using it.

Cheers,
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[Marek Vasut]

Dne Čt 23. července 2009 23:34:39 Sybren A. Stüvel napsal(a):

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:15:53PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > FYI I have decided to post the final migration until some time next week
> > in order to allow people more time to respond.
>
> Just out of curiosity: why Git? To me personally Mercurial is a much
> easier to use, and also very powerful system. Somehow I never got the
> hang of git, whereas Mercurial came natural to me the moment I started
> using it.
>
> Cheers,

Hg is not used too much and is quite crappy. We decided to use git by
something like majority vote (because it's powerful, widely used, has many
nice features etc.). I think you should read some Git manual before you
compare them. Sadly, I had experience with Hg.
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Sybren A. Stüvel wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: why Git? To me personally Mercurial is a much
> easier to use, and also very powerful system. Somehow I never got the
> hang of git, whereas Mercurial came natural to me the moment I started
> using it.

Well, git seems to be one of the most widely used distributed SCMs in the open
source / free software world - many projects are using it or planning to use
it, both high-profile and lesser known ones. As a bonus for me I have been
using git already as part of the OpenEmbedded project, and Erik is also very
familiar with it.

I don't doubt that other distributed SCMs have their merits - hg and bazaar
(to name two) certainly have many devotees. However we had to pick one, and
git just seemed like the right one to us.

Cheers,
Paul
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[Marek Vasut]

Dne Pá 24. července 2009 00:42:03 Sybren A. Stüvel napsal(a):
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:42:42PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Hg is not used too much and is quite crappy.
>
> Yeah, sure. Python, Mozilla, Xine, Java, Google. Those really add up
> to "not much".

You forgot to name Microsoft amongst companies FOSS world would be better off
without.

btw. please dont drop interested addresses when replying. Thanks
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Please, let's not have an argument on opie-devel regarding which SCM can beat
up which other SCM; this is not the forum for that. If you want to continue
the discussion in private I won't stop you.

Thanks,
Paul
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OK, the CVS repository has been converted successfully and the resulting git
repository is now hosted with gitorious:

  http://gitorious.org/opie/opie

I'm working on getting cia.vc and email notifications working, and until that's
done I won't be pushing anything further to this just yet. Once I have sorted
this out I will announce it properly.

Cheers,
Paul
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[Bernhard Guillon-2]

Paul Eggleton wrote:

> OK, the CVS repository has been converted successfully and the resulting git
> repository is now hosted with gitorious:
>
>   http://gitorious.org/opie/opie
>
> I'm working on getting cia.vc and email notifications working, and until that's
> done I won't be pushing anything further to this just yet. Once I have sorted
> this out I will announce it properly.
>
>  

Thank you for keeping Opie alive :)

best regards
Bernhard Guillon
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On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Bernhard Guillon wrote:
> Thank you for keeping Opie alive :)

You're welcome :)

Cheers,
Paul
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