Re: Need help for migration from CVS to git in one go (ie, FORGETTING CVS history)

Le Thursday 06 November 2008 00:50:35 Petr Baudis, vous avez écrit :

  Hi,

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:14:56AM +0100, Francis Galiegue wrote:

quoted

* second: even though this may be a "non problem", we use Bonsai, which
has the ability to see what was commited by whom, given a time interval
(from d1 to d2): the base gitweb allows to search by commiter, which is
good, but it has no date boundaries: do tools exist for git that can do
this? If not, that wouldn't be a big deal, however...

	git log --since='2 months ago' --until='1 month ago'

  There is no gitweb functionality for this right now, but I think an
implementation of that would be welcome in principle.

Well, right now, the search field is only a... field. Implementing such a 
change would require a whole search page... I don't think anyone would want 
to pollute the bare-bones page with more fields if they're of no use 90+% of 
the time.

A search page would make sense, I guess, since the date criterion is not the 
only one that you could use... But what other criteria would be useful? And 
then, if a search page is implemented, what of the current dropdown list? 
Drop it altogether and put a "Search commits..." link instead?

quoted

* third: also Bonsai-related; Bonsai can link to Bugzilla by matching
(wild guess) /\b(?:#?)(\d+)\b/ and transforming this into
http://your.bugzilla.fqdn.here/show_bug.cgi?id=$1. Does gitweb have this
built-in? (haven't looked yet) Is this planned, or has it been discussed
and been considered not worth the hassle?

  This is planned and I think there are third-party patches for this
(cannot find them quickly, though), but upstream gitweb does not have
the support for this included yet.

I'd love to have a link to these patches, honestly. "Our" commit messages are 
poor enough that more often than not, the whole commit message is, for 
instance, "fix bug #xxxx". While I push hard for more explicit commit 
messages, this is just a pipe dream and that link to Bugzilla is vital to 
us...

-- 
fge