Re: [bug-miscfiles] proposals

[Jim Meyering]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    >       By the way, where is the GNU git repository available for miscfile
>    >       project?
>    >
>    >    There isn't one available, someone has to create it.  I'll do the
>    >    cvs->git conversion.
>    >
>    > I've created a test repo for miscfiles, I put up a tarball at
>    >
>    > http://planet.gnu.org/~ams/miscfiles-git.tar
>
>    After a cursory examination, it looks fine:
>      - you mapped all user names to Real Name <email>
>      - I see some tags, so I presume all are preserved
>
> Not many tags, and not a great bunch of people who commited things so
> it was quite simple.
>
>    However, do note that the tags are not signed.  You may want to
>    replace those simple, unsigned tags with gpg-signed ones.  That
>    makes it so tools like "git describe SHA" are more useful: without
>    signed tags, everyone have to know/remember to use some option to
>    tell it to check for unsigned tags to make it useful.
>
> I was contemplating of adding "proper" tags (miscfiles-x_y kinda deal)
> for each release of miscfiles; and rename the old tags to something
> like cvs/tag-name.  What do you think?

When renaming tags (or adding new ones), I prefer to use very
short names -- easier/quicker to type -- like v1.2, etc.
Here are the recent ones in coreutils:

  v8.10
  v8.11
  v8.12
  v8.13
  v8.14
  v8.15
  v8.16

Also, if you use this style, some gnulib-supplied tools will
be able to automate your build/release process out of the box.

>    If you're interested, let me know and I'll dig up my notes.  I've
>    done it a few times before, and getting it right (making
>    new-sig-tag date match that of each old one) was not trivial.
>
> Please do, it would be very helpful.

Here are my notes from when I converted old (unsigned)
tag names like COREUTILS-4_5_1 to new, signed ones like v4.5.1:

  $ git tag|grep CORE
  COREUTILS-4_5_1
  COREUTILS-4_5_10
  COREUTILS-4_5_11
  COREUTILS-4_5_12
  COREUTILS-4_5_2
  COREUTILS-4_5_3
  COREUTILS-4_5_4
  COREUTILS-4_5_5
  COREUTILS-4_5_6
  COREUTILS-4_5_7
  COREUTILS-4_5_8
  COREUTILS-4_5_9
  COREUTILS-5_0
  COREUTILS-5_0_1
  COREUTILS-5_0_90
  COREUTILS-5_0_91
  COREUTILS-5_1_0
  COREUTILS-5_1_1
  COREUTILS-5_1_2
  COREUTILS-5_1_3
  COREUTILS-5_2_0
  COREUTILS-5_2_1
  COREUTILS-5_3_0
  COREUTILS-5_90
  COREUTILS-5_91
  COREUTILS-5_92
  COREUTILS-6_0
  COREUTILS-6_1
  COREUTILS-6_2
  COREUTILS-6_3
  COREUTILS-6_4
  COREUTILS-6_5
  COREUTILS-6_6
  COREUTILS-6_7
  COREUTILS-6_8
  COREUTILS-6_9

  # Create better-named signed tags, yet with the same old date as
  # the old-named tag.
  for i in $(git tag -l 'COREUTILS-*'); do
    v=$(echo $i|sed 's/COREUTILS-/v/;s/_/./g')
    date=$(git log --pretty=%ci -1 $i)
    echo $v
    GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$date" git tag -f -s -m$v $v $i
  done

  # Inspect, then push ...

  tags=$(
    for i in $(git tag -l 'COREUTILS-*'); do
      printf 'tag '; echo $i|sed 's/COREUTILS-/v/;s/_/./g'
    done
    )
  git push origin $(echo $tags)