[PATCH] convert: add --authormapsuffix to append set text to author names (issue4171)

[Augie Fackler]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:50:03AM +1100, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> On 02/14/14 14:57, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> > Hi Mads,
> >
> > On 02/14/14 12:52, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> [snip]
> >>
> >> You mention the lack of a more complete templating like feature. How
> >> could it look like? Could we aim at that instead?
> >
> > We certainly could and probably should. Only reason I proposed this
> > patch is that it exists now, works as advertised and I've been using it
> > during my setup of http://hg-beta.freebsd.org/ (currently offline for
> > another few hours while I rerun the conversion with my --authormapsuffix
> > patch so that authors are mapped to @FreeBSD.org so that downstream
> > consumers of the repo can better differentiate from changes made by
> > upstream authors vs local authors).
>
> FYI, http://hg-beta.freebsd.org/ is back up if anyone is interested to
> take a look. It is being instantiated as a read-only seed repository to
> facilitate non-blessed committers and organisations developing
> FreeBSD-derived products to be able to more easily track and hack
> FreeBSD. I am putting together corresponding documentation to explain
> how to do useful things with it, which might be interesting to get some
> Mercurial community feedback on at some stage.
>
> The FreeBSD svn source repo represents something of an interesting
> conversion challenge, with the partially converted repo (trunk and
> stable branches only currently, more branches will likely follow later)
> coming in at ~240k commits, ~1GB size on disk.

Have you looked at hgsubversion at all? The facebook guys have done a
lot of work that might make this more straightforward.

>
> As an aside, being able to detect MFCes (cherry-pick merges from the
> head/trunk branch back to stable branches) and add appropriate ancestral
> links during the conversion would be a nice outcome of a more advanced
> snippets/templating based arrangement. As far as I know, it's currently
> impossible to achieve this on-the-fly when doing incremental conversion
> runs against the svn source of truth.

Does svn:mergeinfo get recorded on these merges? If so, it might be possible.

>
> Cheers,
> Lawrence
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