Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753395AbYLBIA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:00:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751466AbYLBIAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:00:17 -0500 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.234]:62906 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751432AbYLBIAP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:00:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=TO4XcfOzVS9XU09aEvKGpXnwD4dOmt0Atqh/84Lrx7j7vsSyoNFZdTN0IdxkEXq9lI 1AB87rtzExlnZ81GAQ20+7JzaGKLC2mLyuEwVZ6gURSjGO15l2xzxkoVBudX72ake8Dz RFTykEDe3l7GJLqkYpSsFEYp4IT3YsTdpOTd8= Message-ID: <5d5443650812020000t3ed04d1am4963b9fe914d34a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:30:13 +0530 From: "Trilok Soni" To: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" Subject: Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb Cc: "Hans Verkuil" , "v4l-dvb maintainer list" , v4l , "Sakari Ailus" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5d5443650812012228u5aad36a2jc3e9e68cd61c27e3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200812011451.06156.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <5d5443650812011014q55a96540gc8a4b97be951f2fd@mail.gmail.com> <20081201202209.5cea1f4b@pedra.chehab.org> <5d5443650812012228u5aad36a2jc3e9e68cd61c27e3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1690 Lines: 40 Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Trilok Soni wrote: > Hi Mauro, > >> >> This is one of the lack of the features on mercurial. It doesn't have a meta >> tag for committer. On mercurial, the -hg user and the author should be the same >> person. >> >> Since we want to identify the patch origin (e.g. whose v4l/dvb maintainer got >> the patch), we use the internal "user" meta-tag as the committer, and an extra >> tag, at the patch description for the author (From:). >> >> When creating the -git patch, the "From:" tag is replaced, by script, for >> "Author:", I add my SOB there, and, I add myself as the -git committer (on git >> we have both meta-tags). > > Isn't it good time to move v4l2-dvb tree to GIT? I am not aware of any > hg-to-git repo. converter, but I can check with hg and git community. > It could be difficult at first, but I am very confident that there are > many GIT users here than mercurial, and yes your v4l-dvb maintenance > process might change due move from GIT, but atleast you will not have > to internal user meta-data per patch. OK, there are tools to convert mercurial to git repo. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-8870e1c81cc93f9a7a7acb5e969924ee60182d6b http://hedonismbot.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/hg-fast-export-convert-mercurial-repositories-to-git-repositories/ -- ---Trilok Soni http://triloksoni.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/triloksoni -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/