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Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import..

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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Jul 27, 2005, 15:41 UTC
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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> I used to think I wanted to, but these days I really don't. One of the
> reasons is that I expect to try to pretty up the old bkcvs conversion some
> time: use the name translation from the old "shortlog" scripts etc, and
> see if I can do some other improvements on the conversion (I think I'll
> remove the BK files - "ChangeSet" etc).
Thomas has done all that; it's on kernel.org already.
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> And it's really much easier and more general to have a "graft" facility.  
> It's something that git can do trivially (literally a hook in
> "parse_commit" to add a special parent), and it's actually a generic
> mechanism exactly for issues like this ("project had old history in some
> other format").

Hm, OK. That works and can also be used for the "fake _absence_ of parent" thing -- if I'm space-constrained and want only the history back to some relatively recent point like 2.6.0, I can do that by turning the 2.6.0 commit into an orphan instead of also using all the rest of the history back to 2.4.0. 

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dwmw2
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  1. Linus TorvaldsJul 26, 2005
  2. Diego CallejaJul 26, 2005
  3. A Large Angry SCMJul 26, 2005
  4. David WoodhouseJul 27, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsJul 27, 2005
  6. David WoodhouseJul 27, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsJul 27, 2005
  8. Teach parse_commit_buffer about grafting.Junio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2005
  9. Matthias UrlichsJul 30, 2005
  10. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2005
  11. Wolfgang DenkAug 18, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 18, 2005
  13. Paul MackerrasAug 18, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsAug 18, 2005
  15. Paul MackerrasAug 19, 2005
  16. Johannes SchindelinAug 19, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsAug 19, 2005

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