[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Converting amavisd-new repo to git

[Alexander Wirt]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. June 2011:

> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > Brian May schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. June 2011:
> > > On 22 May 2011 17:56, Alexander Wirt <formorer at formorer.de> wrote:
> > > > as it seems I am - more or less - the only persons that maintains amavisd-new
> > > > nowadays. Amavisd-new is currently my last package that uses mecurial,
> > > > everything else moved to git. So if nobody objects I'll convert the mercurial
> > > > repo to git. Maybe using standard tool helps in getting fresh blood into the
> > > > packaging.
> > > 
> > > Somehow I managed to miss this email. Oops.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, I am happy with the change to git. More of my projects now use
> > > git, so I am more familiar with it then before.
> > > 
> > > Have you made the move? Where can I find the git repository?
> > On my laptop: yes. On alioth: as soon as you make an admin of the project :). 
> 
> Done.
> 
> And everyone which was just Admin is now both Admin and Senior
> Developer.
> 
> Please make sure when you do the initial push to the git repo, to do it
> in such a way that it will handle more than one git tree.
> 
> Bonus points if the git tree has all previously released packages in it,
> and the full (or cleaned up, whatever) history from hg.
> 
> IME, full history in the git repo can be very very handy in a few years
> from now if you ever find yourself in need to discover WHEN some change
> was introduced, etc.  Been there, got saved by history logs and git
> blame output finding important stuff commited > 5 years ago in the
> Cyrus-IMAP packages, and >3 years ago in the kernel
> thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi driver.
Here we are:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=amavisd-new/pkg-amavisd-new.git;a=summary

commits go to the -changes list. If you want to commit anything, please don't
commit any changelog entrys unless you want to upload afterwards. Otherwise
use git-dch [1] for local changelog generation.  

Alex

[1] http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.man.git.dch.html