Re: New review conversion of Emacs repository

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for doing that.  As an example of how much faster 'git' is on my 
desktop, 'git log' takes 2 seconds, whereas 'bzr log' takes 28 seconds, 
with both repositories hot.  I am looking forward to the switchover.

I looked at the conversion and have some questions.  Sorry, it's been so 
long since I reviewed the last conversion that I forgot whether these 
issues have come up before.  (If they have, please just consider this as 
stuff that still worries me mildly. :-)

* On the master/trunk branch, the git repository contains 549 commits 
more than the bzr repository does, 117867 versus 117318.  I assume this 
is because the git repository lists each merged change separately rather 
than a single 'Merge from' commit.  I wanted to confirm this, though. 
For example, git commit 94075d6f559ced1fab36c50bdfa51a612f422080 by 
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> dated Sep 7 22:57:24 2014 -0700 isn't 
explictly mentioned in the bzr log, and was this because it was part of 
the bzr merge that produced trunk bzr 117839 dated 2014-09-07 23:00:58 
-0700 by Glenn?  Are there any other reasons a commit should appear in 
one log but not the other?

* Rewriting revision numbers occasionally makes ChangeLog lines longer 
than 80 characters.  I propose that we fix this via a manual pass after 
the change, something that's done fairly routinely for ChangeLog files 
anyway.

* This conversion treats ChangeLog as metadata, and I'd feel more 
comfortable if ChangeLog files were treated as data.  For example, if I 
ask the git repository "Please give me src/ChangeLog as the end of 
2012", I git a different answer than if I ask the bzr repository the 
same question.  (See the diff output below.)  I'd feel more comfortable 
if these changes were applied to the ChangeLog files via the 
abovementioned pass after the conversion, as that way the old git data 
will match the old bzr data exactly.

 $ diff -u <(cd trunk && bzr cat -r111390 ChangeLog) \
           <(cd review6 && git show \
                431e43b612777eefb6655728f7979a9c8d87c429:ChangeLog)
 --- /dev/fd/63 2014-09-13 11:26:24.254835175 -0700
 +++ /dev/fd/62 2014-09-13 11:26:24.255835194 -0700
 @@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@

  2012-06-23  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>

 -      Fix the MS-Windows build broken by revno 108687.
 +	Fix the MS-Windows build broken by 
2012-06-22T21:17:address@hidden
        * lib/makefile.w32-in (GNULIBOBJS): Add $(BLD)/dtotimespec.$(O),
        $(BLD)/gettime.$(O), $(BLD)/timespec-add.$(O), and
        $(BLD)/timespec-sub.$(O).