The Debate Over GCC's SVN-to-Git Conversion Approach Won't Be Settled This Year

[OneTimeShot]

I do wonder, those CVS -> SVN conversion errors were not a problem thus far evidently, why it is suddenly a problem now. Just switch with either method (preferably Maxim's since it's been available for months) and move on.

I doubt that there was ever an actual technical problem here...

[timofonic]

Are there a reliable Maxim vs ESR works comparison? Preferable by a skilled third party.

[CommunityMember]

Are there a reliable Maxim vs ESR works comparison? Preferable by a skilled third party.

There is no neutral 3rd party here. Everyone has an agenda. And there is no truly objective definition of "best" history. At this point they are mostly down to arguing over which, and how, email addresses should be extracted, abstracted and possibly modified, which moves into philosophical arguments about how to reference people; some people have had dozens of email addresses over the decades, and some people have changed their names, or their moniker (James is now known as Jim), but it is the same person, maybe. And as anyone who has had a long philosophical debate about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin should know, there is no provably correct answer, even if a number of people seem to really care about the value.

[timofonic]

Well there's Maxim's review of ESR's latest conversion on the mailing list, wherein he notes that the resulting repo is missing several branches and basically broken. So the result of ESR's 6+ months of delaying and ego stroking is a tool that's still clearly inadequate.

No one is making new SVN repos, so eventually conversion tools will become obsolete. ESR isn't doing this for the sake of longevity or general purpose tools but simply because his entire raison d'être is ingratiating himself and tricking compiler hackers into believing he's as competent as they are. Unless you've been following him for a long time, it's easy to miss the manifestations of his (by now, well documented) personality disorder.

It's disappointing to know it. I had hopes reposurgeon would be a really useful tool and useful for GCC Subversion to Git conversation too.

Interesting to know. Did he have an appointment with a respectable and competent psychiatrist? He seems to be in a sad situation if all that is happening.