Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On zo, 2008-08-03 at 19:09 -0700, Eric Wong wrote: > > > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I could imagine that leaving git-svn alone and adding a hook to git-log > > > would be more useful, though. > > > > NACK on modifying git-svn to support more changelog formats. > > > > A better idea would be to write a generic script that takes "git log", > > "git svn log" or even plain "svn log" output and filters it > > independently. > > > This filter should be reusable for both plain svn and git-svn: > > > The possibilities are endless :) > > Yes, but we'll most probably drop SVN rsn, possibly after a short period > of supporting both; and not stripping the cruft in the conversion means > we carry this with us until eternity. Besides, who is going to > distribute the script, inform users about its availability? > > What we have now suffices for our ooo-build conversion. If you do not > find it useful, more power/less code to you. Let others search the > archives and/or patch git-svn themselves, if indeed there are any. In the one-shot case, a git filter-branch script would probably be ideal and reusable for other projects. Anyways, I strongly believe changelog modification/reformatting should be done in a more generic way that can benefit users of other tools (archimport/cvsimport etc...), too. -- Eric Wong -- 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
