[Biopython-dev] history on github - where are the tags?

[Peter]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Bartek Wilczynski
>>>>
>>>> If we can fix the tags, great.  If we can also remap the authors to
>>>> their git usernames, even better.
>>>>
>>> This is doable in the current setup. I don't know whether we need to
>>> do this. The old commits are signed by the same credentials (name,
>>> e-mail) as on CVS server.
>
> From looking at git log, they just have our CVS usename, e.g.
> Author: peterc <peterc>
> i.e. No email address
>
>>> If we start re-mapping them now, we are going to have essentially a
>>> new commit history, so everybody would need to rebase their
>>> branches... I don't see a problem of having old commits signed with
>>> old e-mails, and new commits signed by new. Especially, that
>>> everybody can have multiple e-mails assigned to their github
>>> account (that's how I did with mine).
>>
>> That would be simpler.  I'll have to try on my github account...
>
> Given we don't have email addresses embedded in the old commits,
> do you think is this going to be possible (without changing the
> repository)?

I take that back - I added an email address of just "peterc" to my
github account (it seems they don't do any validation, perhaps for
this very reason?).  This had no immediate effect, but one day later
and all my CVS commits are now shown with my photo in github.  Neat -
but it makes it much more obvious that I have a tendency to do lots of
small commits!

Peter