From: Pat Notz Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:01:32 GMT Subject: Re: Gnome chose Git Message-ID: <1cd1989b0903190701uac4602dl1d2c3cace45a9938@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49C24D9B.1060301@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Pat Notz venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 14:43: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Michael J Gruber >> wrote: >>> Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 12:23: >>>> FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from >>>> Subversion to Git: >>>> >>>>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134 >>> >>> Good choice :) >>> >>> Interestingly, they seem to go the svn-all-fast-export route. >>> >>> Also, they need push tracking for pushing through ssh, which is a common >>> requirement for many large projects. Do we have something to support >>> that? git-notes comes to my mind. >>> >>> Their current approach is writing to a single log file (receive-hook). >>> That may support a linear push history best, but looking up who pushed >>> what, given "what"? >>> >> >> That's also something we do.  Since the post-receive hook gives you >> the refname and the old and new refs you should have everything you >> need.  We basically record the user name, UTC timestamp and the ref >> info.  With a little bit more scripting you should be able to figure >> everything else out (though post-receive isn't called for local >> commits). >> > > I know the info is there. It might just make more sense to have it in > the git repo the way notes are/will be: It's public, it's connected to > the commits, it's tamper proof (anyone would notice rewrites). > Ahh, yes. We'd like that too. > Michael > > P.S.: Was this intentionally off-list? Just in case I respected it. > Oops, sorry about that. Fixed.