Please create a repo to hold the historical git migration and give me access to push. I intend to push the draft I have on github. Nothing prevents us from pushing a forced update to a newer migration if at a future point in time somebody finds a problem in it or comes up with a better approach, but I've yet to hear any complaints. It would be better to get this hosted on infra, especially while changelogs are down. I'm not picky on names. Suggestions ordered by preference: repo/gentoo-history repo/gentoo-cvs repo/gentoo-<date> - date of the migration proj/git-migration-history Reproducible: Always
Just to be clear, the bare clone is around 1.63 GiB, though don't know if it grows more after delta resolution.
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1) > Just to be clear, the bare clone is around 1.63 GiB, though don't know if it > grows more after delta resolution. That is correct. If there is a concern about overhead hosting this, I also have a bundle of it which could be hosted on mirrors/etc if that makes more sense. It isn't really any harder to clone from. It isn't any smaller, but it can be transferred by http/ftp/rsync/etc and trivially mirrored. I don't really see anybody doing shallow clones of the historical migration, so I don't think there is much downside to not having it hosted as a full repo. Either way I still need someplace to put it. Since it won't be routinely modified I can just put it on dev.g.o for infra to grab if desired.
I was originally planning on repo/gentoo/historical as the name, but I hadn't settled it 100%. My work was already based on your GitHub instance, plus adding the cleanup commits, so that the state of HEAD on the historical repo already matched the initial commit in gentoo.git. I just never got that part 100% finished with everything else going on.
I'd suggest publishing what we have at least for now, especially since we're without changelogs for a while. The value of the historical migration actually is at its highest right now, and of course nothing prevents us from appending to the historical migration or just forcing a new head if we redo it.
rich0: I went to use your copy from github, but I noticed that the entire app-backup category is missing. (I also seem to have misplaced my intermediate conversion working copy).
rich0: Here's why app-backup was missing, along with what else: # ./create-git.sh Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/git/ ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/sound-data ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/app-mobphone ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/app-backup ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/.cvsignore ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/embassy-meme ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/ruby-freedb ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/kpackage ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/ipaddress ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/web-proxy ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/Attic ignoring nonexistant alternates source /home/gitmig/git-conversion-tools/final/mail-server All commits loaded.. starting dedup runs progress 0%: 7888 of 788892 commits ...
And the actual error for each of those: final/app-backup/log:ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both cvs-repo/gentoo-x86/app-backup/metadata.xml,v and cvs-repo/gentoo-x86/app-backup/Attic/metadata.xml,v final/app-mobphone/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/Attic/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/embassy-meme/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/ipaddress/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/kpackage/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/mail-server/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/ruby-freedb/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/sound-data/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'! final/web-proxy/log:ERROR: No RCS files found under 'cvs-repo/gentoo-x86'!
Ha, I remember the app-backup/Attic case now. It's a magical CVS reserved word, and hanno tried to add a package with that name; and CVS really got confused.
(In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #8) > Ha, I remember the app-backup/Attic case now. It's a magical CVS reserved > word, and hanno tried to add a package with that name; and CVS really got > confused. Seems like the simple solution is to just delete the offending file(s) and pretend they were never there. I suspect that cvs wouldn't be able to really retrieve them either.
(In reply to Richard Freeman from comment #9) > (In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #8) > > Ha, I remember the app-backup/Attic case now. It's a magical CVS reserved > > word, and hanno tried to add a package with that name; and CVS really got > > confused. > > Seems like the simple solution is to just delete the offending file(s) and > pretend they were never there. I suspect that cvs wouldn't be able to > really retrieve them either. I did some tweaks that should let it actually get included. I see that the script.sh also didn't catch anything that in the real top-level Attic. I've got a run going that: - has a fixup for app-backup/Attic -> app-backup/attic - includes toplevel Attic - excludes empty toplevel directories.
Ping. gentoo/historical.git has been around for a while now, and the remaining issues with CVS migration are still not corrected in it. The issue is fixed in the new working git repo, but the historical image is still missing app-backup in entirety, which makes archaeology a bit confusing without having to change your tools entirely. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo/historical.git/tree/ d--------- app-arch d--------- app-benchmarks d--------- app-cdr https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/ d--------- app-arch d--------- app-backup d--------- app-benchmarks d--------- app-cdr $ git log --shortstat app-backup | tail -n 100 commit 56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Date: Sat Aug 8 13:49:04 2015 -0700 proj/gentoo: Initial commit ... 337 files changed, 16497 insertions(+)
*** Bug 778974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I believe ulm's new repo resolves this problem.
