Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
<chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Matt Turner schrieb:
>>
>> The git transition had been 9 years in the making and has massively
>> improved Gentoo development. Look at the graph of contributions per month:
>> https://www.openhub.net/p/gentoo
>
> I'd like to point out that some stuff that has previously been done in a
> single commit is now several commits (e.g. bump + removal of old version).
> How much of the rise in commit activity is attributable to actual
> development increase is not clear to me.
>

How were previous cvs commit stats generated?  CVS has not concept of
a commit across multiple files in its data model.  You can of course
look for commits to multiple files that share the same timestamp and
author and infer that these are a single commit, but if you make two
commits at the same time with the same name and description in cvs
there is no way to distinguish that from one commit that hits both
files.  In git these would be captured differently.

For the historical migration to git commits were consolidated using a
window.  Otherwise you'd get a bazillion Manifest commits on top of
everything else, to say nothing of simultaneous commits to
filesdir/etc.

But, yours is a fair point all the same.  In any case, git should be a
lot more useful overall.  Not to mention that while we might be
arguing about which 3rd-party tools are the best for improving our
workflow at least we have a choice now.

-- 
Rich