Re: [bug-miscfiles] proposals

[Jim Meyering]

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

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.

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.