[Geany-devel] Geany Plugins SVN Commit URLs

[Jiří Techet]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 15:43, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 11-11-01 06:11 AM, Jiří Techet wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 23:25, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11-10-30 03:03 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:15:33 -0700
>>>> Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't heard too much about the Git conversion of Geany Plugins,
>>>>> but I wanted to offer a suggestion that might improve the commit
>>>>> messages compared to Geany's.  In the Geany's Git repository there's
>>>>> links back to the SVN repository in the commit messages (the links
>>>>> are broken BTW). I was wondering if it would be better to have these
>>>>> links point to a place we have more control over, for example using a
>>>>> Geany commit, instead of this in the commit message:
>>>>>
>>>>> git-svn-id:
>>>>> https://geany.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany/trunk@5970
>>>>> ea778897-0a13-0410-b9d1-a72fbfd435f5
>>>>>
>>>>> We could have something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> git-svn-id:
>>>>> [ea778897-0a13-0410-b9d1-a72fbfd435f5]
>>>>> (http://svn.geany.org/svnroot/geany/trunk?rev=5970)
>>>>>
>>>>> That way we could make the links work and be able to move the old SVN
>>>>> repository without breaking all the links in the commit message. I
>>>>> guess we'd need a little redirect script or something on geany.org.
>>>>> Note also the use of Markdown link syntax, which might render better
>>>>> on Github (not sure).
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid I don't get what is needed here? Did I got you right to
>>>> setup complete mirror of ancient svn on geany.org?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or easier, just make some URL forwarders/rewrites on geany.org so we
>>> don't
>>> have to depend on SourceForge.net to always store the SVN repo and never
>>> change URLs.  The SVN URLs in the Git commit messages will never be able
>>> to
>>> change ever in the future, so if we point it to a location we control,
>>> then
>>> we can ensure they remain valid.
>>>
>>>  From Jiri's other message though, it sounds like the SVN URLs in the Git
>>> commit messages are all going to be broken like the one's in Geany's Git
>>> repository, since it's not an option of the conversion script to change
>>> them.  I don't feel like hacking the conversion script to change the URL
>>> that goes in the commit message, and anyway, as long as it contains the
>>> SVN
>>> revision, it's still useful.
>>
>> Another option would be to use
>>
>> git filter-branch --msg-filter command
>>
>> where command would be some sed expression which would substitute the
>> current format with the required format. Maybe a bit easier, still
>> something I don't want to spend my time on ;-). The only reason I
>> included the SVN metadata was the commit ID which is useful to have
>> because some commits refer to it in their comments and this
>> information would be lost otherwise.
>>
>
> What about something as simple as:
>
> sed |git-svn-id:
> https://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany-plugins/trunk/geany-plugins|SVN:|
>
> To at least remove the invalid URL, or better yet:
>
> sed |geany-plugins@|geany-plugins?revision=|
>
> Or similar, so that the URL is not broken?
>
> If it's easy enough, I'd say it's worthwhile.

Hi Matthew,

could you test if it does the right thing with git filter-branch? (I'm
quite busy these days.)

Cheers,
Jiri