On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:54 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > > > If anyone recalls my report was something along the lines of > > git gc --aggressive explodes pack size. > [ By default, for example, "git svn clone/fetch" seems to create those > horrible fake email addresses that contain the ID of the SVN repo in > each commit - I'm not talking about the "git-svn-id", I'm talking about > the "user@hex-string-goes-here" thing for the author. Maybe people don't > really care, but isn't that ugly as hell? I'd think it's worth it doing > a really nice import, spending some effort on it. > > But maybe those things come from the older CVS->SVN import, I don't > really know. I've done a few SVN imports, but I've done them just for > stuff where I didn't want to touch SVN, but just wanted to track some > project like libgpod. For things like *that*, a totally mindless "git > svn" thing is fine ] > git svn does accept a mailmap at import time with the same format as the cvs importer I think. But for someone that just wants a repo to check out this was easiest. I'd be willing to spend the time to do a nicer job if there was any interest from the gcc side, but I'm not that invested (other than owing them for an often-used tool). Harvey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
