From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Richard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@arm.com>,
Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org>,
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,
Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 13:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190529125554.GO31586@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1905290049350.27415@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:53:30AM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2019, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> > IMO the best we can do is use what we already have: what CVS or SVN used
> > as the committer identity. *That* info is *correct* at least.
>
> CVS and SVN have a local identity. git has a global identity. I consider
Git has an identity (well, two) _per commit_, and there is no way you can
reconstruct people's prefered name and email address (at any point in time,
for every commit separately) correctly. IMO it is much better to not even
try. We already *have* enough info for anyone to trivially look up who wrote
what, and what might be that person's email address at the time. But
pretending that is more than a guess is just wrong.
> it simply *incorrect* to put a local identity in a git committer or author
On the contrary, the identity on the CVS or SVN server is 100% correct, and
it is the best we can do as far as I can see.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-29 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-14 16:11 Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-14 21:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-15 8:34 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-15 18:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-16 9:44 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-15 11:19 ` Richard Biener
2019-05-15 12:08 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-15 18:42 ` Eric Gallager
2019-05-16 0:33 ` Paul Koning
2019-05-16 9:53 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-16 16:22 ` Jeff Law
2019-05-16 16:40 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-16 18:36 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2019-05-16 19:07 ` Jeff Law
2019-05-16 22:04 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-05-17 11:33 ` Martin Liška
2019-05-16 23:54 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-17 8:19 ` Richard Sandiford
2019-05-17 19:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-17 20:59 ` Steve Ellcey
2019-05-17 21:23 ` Jason Merrill
2019-05-20 22:42 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-21 14:24 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-05-21 14:45 ` Jeff Law
2019-05-21 15:02 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-05-21 16:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-23 22:33 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-24 8:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-24 12:02 ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-29 1:50 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-29 13:04 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-05-31 0:16 ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-02 23:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-06-03 22:33 ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-03 22:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-06-05 18:04 ` Jason Merrill
2019-06-06 10:14 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-06-06 23:41 ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-06 23:50 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2019-06-07 9:32 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-06-06 23:36 ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-22 9:05 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-16 23:06 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-17 12:22 ` Martin Liška
2019-05-17 12:39 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-05-19 7:35 ` Martin Liška
2019-05-19 8:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-19 19:21 ` Marek Polacek
2019-05-19 19:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-19 19:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-19 20:01 ` Andrew Pinski
2019-05-19 20:06 ` Marek Polacek
2019-05-20 7:29 ` Martin Liška
2019-05-20 13:56 ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-20 14:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-20 14:25 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-05-20 14:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-20 14:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-05-20 14:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-20 15:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-17 14:59 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-19 7:09 ` Martin Liška
2019-05-17 14:56 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-17 13:07 ` Jason Merrill
2019-05-17 15:08 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-05-20 22:48 ` Joseph Myers
2019-05-28 10:44 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-07-16 10:21 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-07-16 12:40 ` Jason Merrill
2019-07-16 14:27 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-07-20 11:24 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-07-22 9:35 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-01 20:43 ` Jason Merrill
2019-08-02 8:41 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-02 8:57 ` Richard Biener
2019-08-02 10:27 ` Martin Liška
2019-08-02 10:54 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-02 11:01 ` Martin Liška
2019-08-02 11:06 ` Richard Biener
2019-08-02 11:35 ` Martin Liška
2019-08-02 22:31 ` Jason Merrill
2019-08-05 13:20 ` Martin Liška
2019-08-05 15:20 ` Monotonically increasing counter (was Re: [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git) Jason Merrill
2019-08-05 15:34 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-08-05 15:45 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-08-05 18:22 ` Jason Merrill
2019-08-14 18:49 ` Jason Merrill
2019-09-19 19:29 ` Jason Merrill
2019-09-21 18:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-21 20:31 ` Nicholas Krause
2019-09-21 21:32 ` Jason Merrill
2019-09-22 0:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-02 14:35 ` [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-02 14:55 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-05 16:43 ` Mike Stump
2019-08-05 8:24 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-06 11:16 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-23 8:27 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-23 22:08 ` Joseph Myers
2019-09-13 7:20 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-02 8:35 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-02 14:14 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2019-08-02 15:47 ` Segher Boessenkool
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