[Mageia-sysadm] Main tasks for the next days

Thu Nov 18 14:42:03 CET 2010

On 16 November 2010 13:54, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> > Without history ?
+>>
+>> Without svn history, this what I thought we agreed on yesterday
+>> (checking http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meeting/2010/mageia-meeting.2010-11-15-19.36.html
+>> it is).
+>
+> The lose of history was for the packages, not for soft ( at least,
+> that's what I understand, given the fact that "history" is said 5 times
+> and all related to packages, not soft/ ).
+
+Indeed it's what I understood too.
+
+> We all agree that some softwares will need to be cleaned from icons, but
+> IMHO, most of them don't. I also think we can do miracles with git-svn
+> and history rewriting ( except it may take time ).
+>
+> But having worked on software without svn history, I can tell you it is
+> a source of recurrent frustration. You look at some weird piece of code,
+> you do not understand why it was done like this, you do svn blame ->
+> "rev 443 admin: import of the old repository". You are screwed.
+
+Yes. It's already painfull to work because one year was lost in SVN history.
+What's more it was the first year of SVN usage where we eventually did
+major refactoring now that it was possible with SVN in a sensible way
+(aka copying/spliting/moving files without loosing history).
+Same for packages where we lost one year of SVN and where we didn't
+import old CVS history (well that was history without commiter names
+and without changelog but still)
+