11 March, 2011

numbering commits

svn gives each commit a unique number. mercurial does somethign similar. CVS doesn't. git has commit IDs btu they are big and dont' have an intrinsic order (if you dehash two commit IDs you can figure out relative order but its not apparent from the IDs themselves)

I'm interested in numbering the commits on a git branch that is imported from CVS, so there's a well defined linear order (unlike in git in general).

I hacked together this script:

#!/bin/bash

COMMITCOUNT=$( git rev-list origin | wc -l)

echo There are $COMMITCOUNT commits on the origin branch

# this strips whitespace
export COUNT=$(($COMMITCOUNT))

git rev-list origin | while read commitid ; do
  echo numbering $commitid as $COUNT
  TAG=cvs$COUNT
  git tag $TAG $commitid
  COUNT=$(( $COUNT -1))
done

which works like this:

$ ./number-cvs 
There are 205 commits on the origin branch
numbering fea9db3bc7b3e36f82a97d3bb194eb60ecb3b57f as 205
numbering aedbfe81cc1dbf3d6f833225aa41826854398a3c as 204
numbering f040d23565211acb637d3325d240d675fe1e61a6 as 203
numbering eef4a46ce30de2836402a373e8eae49fc1b75935 as 202
numbering 2bb5b931be9beb0d90a2796b85585149465f8fc3 as 201
numbering a4372569c60bcb6d92a63b258389b5f1a210dd40 as 200
fatal: tag 'cvs200' already exists
numbering bbd6af71ef17fcb05a9cf86a372837dcf470e30b as 199
fatal: tag 'cvs199' already exists
numbering 6e1dc4d7d59b3515a3f46c17517c1bb85172c7bc as 198
fatal: tag 'cvs198' already exists
numbering 87c59d4b1bf4c7b1bcb64af078a66290d74f6ebf as 197
fatal: tag 'cvs197' already exists
[...]

This being a hack, I don't attempt to handle previously tagged revisions and instead let git tag give a fatal error that isn't really fatal...

Now I end up with commit tags that look like cvs200, cvs201, ...

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/4/11 14:40

    Maybe you want to look at git-describe if you have at least one tag.

    Gives output like v1.0.4-14-g2414721 which means 14 commits after v1.0.4 and after this a shortened global revision.

    The best of both worlds, like mercurial i think.

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  2. There aren't any CVS tags on that repo - so I use git describe, but that gives the base tag as the cvsNNN tag, plus any non-CVS modifications I've made locally.

    Sticking a tag on the beginning of the tree and letting git describe do the numbering from that seems like an interesting idea, though.

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