Re: mercurial to git

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mar 15, 2007, 14:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20070315141227.GA18416@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070315101913.GA9831@peter.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:19:13AM +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:

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> I failed to send a response to the list and it went Theodore privately 
> only, sorry. I merged hg2git into fast-export.git at repo.or.cz and 
> named it 'hg-fast-export' to match with the other importers there. It 
> now can parse Signed-off-by lines and supports author maps (as 
> git-cvsimport and git-svnimport do, same syntax).

BTW, there are a number of places where the old name (hg2git) is still being used for filenames, et.al, because $PFX is still being set to hg2git.

> For which changesets exactly? The script only attempts to write out the 
> 'author' command if -s (for parsing signed-off-by) is given. But for 
> both commands the time information written out are identical and are 
> exactly what hg gives us. So the bug must be elsewhere.

All of them.  :-)

Upon doing more investigation, the failure case seems to be if -A is specified but NOT -s. Comare:

(Generated using: hg-fast-export.sh -A ../e2fsprogs.authors -r ../e2fsprogs)
commit b584b9c57ecbbeef91970ca2924d66662029ab29
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000  <=============

with

(Generated using: hg-fast-export.sh -s -A ../e2fsprogs.authors -r ../e2fsprogs)
commit 9e9a5867e4d4985bde6d6be072efb96e901e08cc
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed Mar 7 08:09:10 2007 -0500  <=============

The date seems to be correctly generated using

	hg-fast-export.sh -s -A ../e2fsprogs.authors -r ../e2fsprogs
	hg-fast-export.sh -s -r ../e2fsprogs
	hg-fast-export.sh -r ../e2fsprogs

It seems to be this combination of options:

	hg-fast-export.sh -A ../e2fsprogs.authors -r ../e2fsprogs

Where all of the dates end up being Jan 1, 1970.

Regards,

						- Ted