Re: gitweb wishlist

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 24, 2005, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241017510.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505240943080.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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>  - the commit time will be the conversion time, not the original commit 
>    time (but the _author_ time will be correct). I suspect that for a 
>    conversion like this, we really should add support for GIT_COMMIT_DATE. 
> 
>    That would also make the archive conversion 100% reproducible, ie
>    everybody should get the exact same objects (and thus the exact same
>    SHA1 values) which is good.
> 
> I'll add the GIT_COMMIT_DATE thing, but the name translation is for 
> somebody else.

Done. I've also fixed the timezone to "+0000", so that it doesn't matter where you do the conversion, you should always get the same results (again, I just pushed that out, it might not have hit the public mirrors yet).

To get GIT_COMMITTER_DATE (note: COMMITTER, not COMMIT, to illogically match the name/email ones) you obviously also need a new git. So to have it all working right, you should have the top commits in git-tools and git be

    cvs2git: set timezone info to UTC, the way CVS does

and

    git-commit-tree: allow overriding of commit date

respectively.

And if this doesn't work for you, point me to the CVS archive that causes you trouble.

		Linus