From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:00:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating own hierarchies under $GITDIR/refs ?
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CdKRQ_au3QqVoUdedvPpkPh_2vodKJwLZ7VrrwRJSDXQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a9e92424.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> in the context of an ongoing discussion on the Emacs developer list of
> converting the Bzr repository of Emacs, one question (with different
> approaches) is where to put the information regarding preexisting Bazaar
> revision numbers and bug tracker ids: those are not present in the
> current Git mirror.
>
> Putting them in the commit messages would require a full history
> rewrite, and if some are missed in the process, this cannot be fixed
> afterwards.

What do you need them for? Perhaps putting everything in a file, maybe
sorted by SHA-1, would suffice? It should not be too hard to write a
script to map bug tracker id to a commit id. The file is for past
commits only. New commits can contain these info in their messages.
-- 
Duy