Re: [tcf-dev] tracking TCF contributions for IP log

[Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the link.  I'd rather not mess with changing history, and the 
IP log is correct now.

Cheers,
Pawel

On 08/28/2012 10:25 AM, Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
>
> Many thanks for double-checking.
>
> Is the broken commit the most recent one ? Or fairly recent ?
> Then amending the author should be possible with acceptable effort, see the 3rd and 4th answer here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/750172/how-do-i-change-the-author-of-a-commit-in-git
>
> For the future, Scott and Pawel please double check your Gerrit setup as per the instructions here:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Handling_Git_Contributions#Gerrit
>
> If you don't find a problem, please file a bug against Eclipse Community.
> Preserving the Author is very important, and I'm pretty sure that it usually works with Gerrit.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Pawel Piech
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:15 PM
> > To: tcf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [tcf-dev] tracking TCF contributions for IP log
> >
> > FYI, I just found out that gerrit doesn't preserve contributor's Author field
> > when merging to the repo :-(  This means that to get the correct IP log
> > record, I have to add the iplog+ flag on the while bug (since the patch is in
> > gerrit).
> >
> > See bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=388128.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pawel
> >
> > On 08/22/2012 01:21 AM, Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
> > > Hi Pawel,
> > >
> > > Just found this in my inbox (sorry for the delay) -
> > >
> > > The default method of contribution tracking in git is the Author field only
> > (no "iplog+" needed any more for things that you pull from a git repo).
> > > You should check the generated IP log from time to time whether your
> > recent contributions are actually in:
> > > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=tools.cdt.tcf
> > >
> > > If one is missing for any reason, please let us know and add the respective
> > "iplog+" flag on bugzilla.
> > > One extra feature that I personally like from CDT (and we don't currently
> > have) is linking the bug with the git repo by means of automatically adding
> > the commit ID to the bug as a comment. This is some confirmation that the
> > link is actually correct and sometimes helps tracking changes. I'm not sure
> > how CDT does that, does anyone else know ?
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > [mailto:tcf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > On Behalf Of Pawel Piech
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:01 AM
> > > > To: TCF Development
> > > > Subject: [tcf-dev] tracking TCF contributions for IP log
> > > >
> > > > Hi Martin,
> > > > Can you clarify for me what is our current method for tracking
> > > > contributions and generating the IP log?  Is it using the iplog+ flag
> > > > in buzilla, using the Author field in git, or both?  If it's the
> > > > first, then I guess for any contributions done through gerrit, we'll need to
> > attach them to the bug as well.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Pawel
> > > >
> > > >
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