Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import.. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:41:09 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I used to think I wanted to, but these days I really don't. One of the > reasons is that I expect to try to pretty up the old bkcvs conversion some > time: use the name translation from the old "shortlog" scripts etc, and > see if I can do some other improvements on the conversion (I think I'll > remove the BK files - "ChangeSet" etc).
Thomas has done all that; it's on kernel.org already.
> And it's really much easier and more general to have a "graft" facility. > It's something that git can do trivially (literally a hook in > "parse_commit" to add a special parent), and it's actually a generic > mechanism exactly for issues like this ("project had old history in some > other format").
Hm, OK. That works and can also be used for the "fake _absence_ of parent" thing -- if I'm space-constrained and want only the history back to some relatively recent point like 2.6.0, I can do that by turning the 2.6.0 commit into an orphan instead of also using all the rest of the history back to 2.4.0.
-- dwmw2
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