kdelibs, kdebase moving to Git this Saturday

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Friday 28 January 2011 00.06.21 Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> John Tapsell wrote:
> > 2011/1/27 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>:
> >> Please, help review the repositories before migration! Unlike KDE
> >> software, here we won't have point releases to fix bugs later :)
> > 
> > I have quite a few commits in kdebase-workspace with the commit message:
> > 
> > SVN_SILENT:
> > Do blahblah
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > GUI:
> > do blah blah
> > 
> > 
> > Since git places a high important on the very first line, could we
> > mangle these into  "SVN_SILENT: Do blahblah"  and "GUI: do blah blah"
> > 
> >  ?
> > 
> > So check if the first line contains only a keyword, and if so combine
> > with next line?
> 
> It's technically possible, but it may involve a lot of manual work.
> 
> And many people (not including me) disagree with this kind of history edits;
> for example: "<Sho_> IMHO the objective is to import the SVN history
> faithfully and accurately"

While I agree with Eike here, I think that in this case we can make an 
exception, however I do not like the idea of git-filter-branch. How about we 
simply rewrite the message in svn2git?

/Regards
Torgny