onwards to git

Jim Meyering jim@meyering.net
Tue May 5 12:01:00 GMT 2009


Roland McGrath wrote:
>> > We'll recreate the git archive once more from scratch.
>>
>> Doing so, consider fixing this: there are, in May 1996 for example, a
>> bunch of commits attributed to mib <uco-mib@gmx.at>, which is wrong -- as
>> it can be seen from the committed ChangeLog entries, these commits should
>> be attributed to Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG <mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
>
> In general we are not putting much effort into this sort of trivia.  The
> git metadata (authors, dates, etc.) from the past is not something we'll
> ever rely on.  (Indeed, if you go back far enough, the cvs metadata for
> that stuff is not entirely reliable either.)
>
> This particular case is easy to fix, since it's just an entry in the name
> translation table Jim already has.  That was a case where the sourceware
> user name changed (perhaps the only such case): the old "mib" user in cvs
> is the "tb" user today.  I think the most useful translation now is:
> 	Thomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org>
> So use that for mib, tb, and thomas.

Thanks.
I've adjusted the "mib" entry to map to the same RHS as "thomas":
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <thomas@gnu.org>

There is no "tb" username to convert.



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