[ trimming Cc list, Bcc to you ] On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 02:17:57PM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 09:39:31AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > [...] have more git info in the changes file [...] > > > > Your proposal would prevent lost git histories to be reconstructed > > and wrong git histories to be fixed. > > I don't quite see how this would prevent anything. Perhaps we should think > of this proposal more as a divergence monitoring system? Divergence between the archive and the git repositories is my usual concern, that's why I often try to add missing commits here and there. > I don't 100% understand your use case yet, can you maybe show more clearly > what you mean? The linked repo doesn't have any commits by you that I saw. I just did the last commit, but I also set the authorship of the commit to the real author. Salsa shows this information in the web interface, you have to look closer: Update changelog for version 1.0.4-1 Andreas Tille authored 3 months ago and Santiago Vila committed 3 months ago If you clone the repository, you need to do this to see both the author and the committer: git show --format=fuller (Note that I also use git options --author and --date because I'm trying to reconstruct history as if the final commit had been done by the author). If the author had uploaded this with a *.changes file including his commit-id, there would be a mismatch between such commit-id and the one I added on my own. I don't think it would be a good thing that me trying to recover missing commits would be flagged as an error. Thanks.
