[Pkg-samba-maint] switching samba packaging to git tomorrow - don't use svn anymore

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi Jelmer,

On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:59:11PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> I just got a flood of emails, two for every commit.

You should only get one email for every commit. I made a mistake, however,
which deleted a number of old branches, which I recreated afterwards. So for
those branches, you will have received two emails. As I said in a previous
mail a few hours ago: sorry for the noise.

If you get duplicate mails for every real commit, then there must be something
wrong somewhere. I copied the git config for the mails from the ctdb repo. Do
you get duplicates there as well?

> What did we decide on the realnames vs invalid emails? I didn't see any
> further discussion on it.

This is what Jeroen wrote on Tuesday:

"I stopped running the conversion when I sent the mail. Although I
still think using real names instead of alioth usernames is better, I
don't feel very strong about it. It doesn't really matter that much
and there are better things to spend our time on than bikeshedding
about the format of names in the git history."


Christian wrote this earlier today:

"Problem:where are we wrt svn->git?

I could "easily" prepare a p-u update in SVN but that would probably
defeat Ivo's efforts..:-)

Ivo, is it OK to start from the git repo, checkout the right branch
there to get the package version and wheezy and build a p-u update
from there? Is the git repo ready for this? From your last mails, I
guess it is, but I prefer double checking."

After which I moved the repo from samba-test.git to samba.git. I wrote:

"I moved the repo to samba.git and configured the commit mails, so the new
repo is open for business."


If you feel really strongly about it, I don't mind if you rerun the
conversion, but then the git commits need to be rebased on top of the new
repo. At this point, that shouldn't be too difficult, but as we go forward,
this will become increasingly hard.

Cheers,

Ivo