From 61b292dc82757decb5646c43a00e038ba7b4b98c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:35:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] More details on the conversion steps. Really need to record the steps I'm taking. Already rolled some changes back so clearly this is a mistake-prone process. So this will live in a "conversion" branch which I'll eventually use to make a "master" branch (staging each commit with the proper author attributes and the best commit message I can derive - later dirs seem to have announcement files so that helps). --- README.md | 23 ++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d8e6bfe..73fcf04 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -50,23 +50,16 @@ This was used to create `decus.tar.bz2` which was then extracted as ## Creating the BULLETIN source repo (or branch) -Still trying to decide the end result here. I was going to do a separate -source repo but there's a lot of conversion steps I'd like to capture. -So the `master` branch might turn into a `decus2git` branch and then once -the gross conversion steps are done, each tape would get it's own orphan -commit branch (with the correct `GIT_AUTHOR` and commit info metadata). -Something like `tapes/DECUS_TAPE_NAME`. Then the `master` branch would -be created by merging in each tape branch in chronological order. - -The BULLETIN git repo is created by a shell script, `mkBULLETIN.sh` -based on edits to the various versions of bulletin that were extracted -from the ZIP archives. - The files in the ZIP archives are not ready in their current state to make the repo. A number of things had to be done to get them ready for -a proper historical source code archive. The commit logs for this repo -cover those steps, but the following sections explain the steps in -more detail. +a proper historical source code archive. The `conversion` branch tracks +the steps taken to prepare to recreate the historical archive. + +Once the `conversion` branch seems complete, I'll start creating +the historical archive. + +The subsections below track the major conversion probems encountered +and the steps taken to address them. ### Dependencies -- GitLab