Re: Need help for migration from CVS to git in one go (ie, FORGETTING CVS history)

From: Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
Date: Nov 6, 2008, 01:15 UTC
Message-ID: <200811060215.40869.fg@one2team.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081105235035.GA10544@machine.or.cz>

Le Thursday 06 November 2008 00:50:35 Petr Baudis, vous avez écrit :

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>   Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:14:56AM +0100, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> > * second: even though this may be a "non problem", we use Bonsai, which
> > has the ability to see what was commited by whom, given a time interval
> > (from d1 to d2): the base gitweb allows to search by commiter, which is
> > good, but it has no date boundaries: do tools exist for git that can do
> > this? If not, that wouldn't be a big deal, however...
>
> 	git log --since='2 months ago' --until='1 month ago'
>
>   There is no gitweb functionality for this right now, but I think an
> implementation of that would be welcome in principle.
>

Well, right now, the search field is only a... field. Implementing such a change would require a whole search page... I don't think anyone would want to pollute the bare-bones page with more fields if they're of no use 90+% of the time.

A search page would make sense, I guess, since the date criterion is not the only one that you could use... But what other criteria would be useful? And then, if a search page is implemented, what of the current dropdown list? Drop it altogether and put a "Search commits..." link instead?

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> > * third: also Bonsai-related; Bonsai can link to Bugzilla by matching
> > (wild guess) /\b(?:#?)(\d+)\b/ and transforming this into
> > http://your.bugzilla.fqdn.here/show_bug.cgi?id=$1. Does gitweb have this
> > built-in? (haven't looked yet) Is this planned, or has it been discussed
> > and been considered not worth the hassle?
>
>   This is planned and I think there are third-party patches for this
> (cannot find them quickly, though), but upstream gitweb does not have
> the support for this included yet.

I'd love to have a link to these patches, honestly. "Our" commit messages are poor enough that more often than not, the whole commit message is, for instance, "fix bug #xxxx". While I push hard for more explicit commit messages, this is just a pipe dream and that link to Bugzilla is vital to us...

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fge