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tagger Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> 1197871162 +1300
A complete history of Perl to 5.004_02
There would have been more in this first injection, but 5.004_03 was
just too good a release to skip over with a single change.
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Clairvoyant observers may notice certain packs from the tiny corner of the internet are good ones to clone to avoid repacking later.
Early adopters can
git clone http://git.utsl.gen.nz/perl
It's easy to change the repository later to its eventual home possibly on cpan.perl.org, using the git 1.5+ commands:
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://git.perl.org/perl
Many thanks to Catalyst for the bandwidth, hosting, and letting me spend working hours on this stuff.
Final Perl history conversion coming soon!
Well, some time has passed, and I am getting very close to making a release of the Perl 5 project history, converted to git.
I would have written this article about it on this site, but I wanted to include the gitk screenshots
git-p4raw v2 specification
Ripping the Perl Perforce repository
Today I had my first successful run of git-p4raw, a program I have been working on recently that imports a Perforce repository from its raw back-end data files.
The program is actually quite simple, and its approach was inspired by a conversation between myself and Gurusamy Sarathy. Perforce keeps these "checkpoint" and "journal" files which have inside them all of the metadata that it tracks. The file content itself is stored in RCS files which are otherwise uninteresting. So, the program loads this data into tables, throws a few constraints on the tables to confirm my suspicions of how the schema works, and then sets about mining changesets from the tables. As there is MD5 information in the database (for most files, anyway), integrity can be assured along the way and as a result I am very confident that this will be the cleanest conversion yet.
I still have some work to do:
- It might be possible to represent some of the branch cross-merges in the history as real merges in git.
- the 5.004 to 5.004_04 series (Tim Bunce's early maintenance work) is currently represented in Perforce as only 5 changes. I'd like to expand that as I have done with the other pre-perforce series
- Many changes have embedded author attribution that should be copied into the git "author" field of the commits, so that OHLOH etc has the best information.
- Final rewriting to glue the old history onto the new.
I look forward to announcing the completion of this work! It's been a long, hard slog!
now back to where I was at the end of the Reposithon
Ok, so with a bit more work, I've managed to get a full 169 more commits out of the 5.003_08 -> 5.004 series. I'm proud of it as a loving restoration of the history of the period, a tribute to the work that went into this quality Perl release. Perhaps 50% of the changes are attributed and applied separately, including countless patches mined from the Perl 5 porters archives.
Here are the updated sections of THE RECORDS with the new commit totals:
THE RECORDS
Com- Pump- Release Date Notes
mits king (by no means
comprehensive,
see Changes*
for details)
=======================================================================
986 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19
5.003_09 1996-Nov-26
5.003_10 1996-Nov-29
5.003_11 1996-Dec-06
5.003_12 1996-Dec-19
5.003_13 1996-Dec-20
1092 5.003_14 1996-Dec-23
5.003_15 1996-Dec-23
5.003_16 1996-Dec-24
5.003_17 1996-Dec-27
5.003_18 1996-Dec-31
5.003_19 1997-Jan-04
5.003_20 1997-Jan-07
5.003_21 1997-Jan-15
5.003_22 1997-Jan-16
5.003_23 1997-Jan-25
5.003_24 1997-Jan-29
5.003_25 1997-Feb-04
5.003_26 1997-Feb-10
5.003_27 1997-Feb-18
1349 5.003_28 1997-Feb-21
5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
5.003_91 1997-Mar-01
5.003_92 1997-Mar-06
5.003_93 1997-Mar-10
5.003_94 1997-Mar-22
5.003_95 1997-Mar-25
5.003_96 1997-Apr-01
1596 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 Fairly widely used.
5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05
5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08
5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10
5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13
5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15
5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17
5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18
5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24
5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25
5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28
1750 5.003_98 1997-Apr-30
5.003_99 1997-May-01
5.003_99a 1997-May-09
p54rc1 1997-May-12 Release Candidates.
p54rc2 1997-May-14
1812 Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
Next mission: lather, rinse, repeat, but with Tim Bunce's 5.004_* so-called 'maintenance' releases.
Exercise: download this 8MB pack file, then see if you can find the 1812 commits within. Start with git index-pack
Another perl git update
History is not linear - the case for micro-branching
Another perl git update
Another half-day on the history. This time I worked on 5.003_21 through 5.003_91. latest version.
Perl 5 history continued; OHLOH listing
After some quality checks on the pre-perforce history, I decided it would be worth running through the import of the 5.003_08 -> 5.004 series again, but this time with a little more patience. When I ran through it at the reposithon, I was accepting all the defaults and decided that I'd written too fancy an interactive importer to let that be the case.
Some people might wonder why the importer needs to be interactive, let me say that I'm making dozens of minor corrections along the way. There is a lot of manual work going into it!
Just today, I've managed to extract another 29 commits out of the 5.003_07 -> 5.003_21 phase of the history, bringing the total from that period from 200 to 229. This might sound minor, but taking the higher quality of the conversion into account I'd say I'm increasing the detail and resolution by about a third to a half.
However, I am pretty much on a roll with it, and hope to keep going all the way through to the end of about 5.004_04 very soon, which will give a very firm base for putting the Perforce history onto. Thanks to Robert Spiers and John Peacock, I now have a Perforce repository with the metadata extracted. It will be worth doing some re-work of the Perforce importer to get it clean.
I'm trying to get the project listed on OHLOH - but OHLOH seems to be having some issues. I have written to the maintainers of the site.
Pumpking conversion so far
For those who didn't see the initial release, here's an annotated perlhist; the first column is the number of commits in the history at that point. As I release updates, I will log them here.
THE RECORDS
Com- Pump- Release Date Notes
mits king (by no means
comprehensive,
see Changes*
for details)
=======================================================================
Larry 0 Classified. Don’t ask.
ada1bfb6c4d1
1 Larry 1.000 1987-Dec-18
1.001..10 1988-Jan-30
14 1.011..14 1988-Feb-02
Schwern 1.0.15 2002-Dec-18 Modernization
Richard 1.0.16 2003-Dec-18
Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
17 2.001 1988-Jun-28
19 Larry 3.000 1989-Oct-18
3.001 1989-Oct-26
3.002..4 1989-Nov-11
3.005 1989-Nov-18
3.006..8 1989-Dec-22
3.009..12 1990-Mar-02
3.013..14 1990-Mar-13
3.015 1990-Mar-14
3.016..18 1990-Mar-28
3.019..27 1990-Aug-10 User subs.
3.028 1990-Aug-14
3.029..36 1990-Oct-17
3.037 1990-Oct-20
3.038..040 1990-Nov-10
3.041 1990-Nov-13
3.042..43 1991-Jan-??
62 3.044 1991-Jan-12
63 Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
4.001..3 1991-Apr-12
4.004..9 1991-Jun-07
4.010 1991-Jun-10
4.011..18 1991-Nov-05
4.019 1991-Nov-11 Stable.
4.020..33 1992-Jun-08
4.034 1992-Jun-11
4.035 1992-Jun-23
99 Larry 4.036 1993-Feb-05 Very stable.
5.000alpha1 1993-Jul-31
100 5.000alpha2 1993-Aug-16
5.000alpha3 1993-Oct-10
5.000alpha4 1993-???-??
5.000alpha5 1993-???-??
5.000alpha6 1994-Mar-18
5.000alpha7 1994-Mar-25
Andy 5.000alpha8 1994-Apr-04
Larry 5.000alpha9 1994-May-05 ext appears.
5.000alpha10 1994-Jun-11
5.000alpha11 1994-Jul-01
Andy 5.000a11a 1994-Jul-07 To fit 14.
5.000a11b 1994-Jul-14
5.000a11c 1994-Jul-19
5.000a11d 1994-Jul-22
Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-Aug-04
Andy 5.000a12a 1994-Aug-08
5.000a12b 1994-Aug-15
5.000a12c 1994-Aug-22
5.000a12d 1994-Aug-22
5.000a12e 1994-Aug-22
5.000a12f 1994-Aug-24
5.000a12g 1994-Aug-24
5.000a12h 1994-Aug-24
Larry 5.000beta1 1994-Aug-30
Andy 5.000b1a 1994-Sep-06
Larry 5.000beta2 1994-Sep-14 Core slushified.
Andy 5.000b2a 1994-Sep-14
5.000b2b 1994-Sep-17
5.000b2c 1994-Sep-17
Larry 5.000beta3 1994-Sep-??
Andy 5.000b3a 1994-Sep-18
5.000b3b 1994-Sep-22
5.000b3c 1994-Sep-23
5.000b3d 1994-Sep-27
5.000b3e 1994-Sep-28
5.000b3f 1994-Sep-30
5.000b3g 1994-Oct-04
Andy 5.000b3h 1994-Oct-07
Larry? 5.000gamma 1994-Oct-13?
109 Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-17
Andy 5.000a 1994-Dec-19
5.000b 1995-Jan-18
5.000c 1995-Jan-18
5.000d 1995-Jan-18
5.000e 1995-Jan-18
5.000f 1995-Jan-18
5.000g 1995-Jan-18
5.000h 1995-Jan-18
5.000i 1995-Jan-26
5.000j 1995-Feb-07
5.000k 1995-Feb-11
5.000l 1995-Feb-21
5.000m 1995-Feb-28
5.000n 1995-Mar-07
5.000o 1995-Mar-13?
128 Larry 5.001 1995-Mar-13
Andy 5.001a 1995-Mar-15
5.001b 1995-Mar-31
5.001c 1995-Apr-07
5.001d 1995-Apr-14
5.001e 1995-Apr-18 Stable.
5.001f 1995-May-31
5.001g 1995-May-25
5.001h 1995-May-25
5.001i 1995-May-30
5.001j 1995-Jun-05
5.001k 1995-Jun-06
5.001l 1995-Jun-06 Stable.
5.001m 1995-Jul-02 Very stable.
5.001n 1995-Oct-31 Very unstable.
146 5.002beta1 1995-Nov-21
5.002b1a 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1b 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1c 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1d 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1e 1995-Dec-08
5.002b1f 1995-Dec-08
Tom 5.002b1g 1995-Dec-21 Doc release.
207 Andy 5.002b1h 1996-Jan-05
5.002b2 1996-Jan-14
Larry 5.002b3 1996-Feb-02
Andy 5.002gamma 1996-Feb-11
Larry 5.002delta 1996-Feb-27
321 Larry 5.002 1996-Feb-29 Prototypes.
431 Charles 5.002_01 1996-Mar-25
450 5.003 1996-Jun-25 Security release.
647 5.003_01 1996-Jul-31
649 Nick 5.003_02 1996-Aug-10
Andy 5.003_03 1996-Aug-28
5.003_04 1996-Sep-02
5.003_05 1996-Sep-12
5.003_06 1996-Oct-07
976 5.003_07 1996-Oct-10
986 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19
5.003_09 1996-Nov-26
5.003_10 1996-Nov-29
5.003_11 1996-Dec-06
5.003_12 1996-Dec-19
5.003_13 1996-Dec-20
1085 5.003_14 1996-Dec-23
5.003_15 1996-Dec-23
5.003_16 1996-Dec-24
5.003_17 1996-Dec-27
5.003_18 1996-Dec-31
5.003_19 1997-Jan-04
5.003_20 1997-Jan-07
5.003_21 1997-Jan-15
5.003_22 1997-Jan-16
5.003_23 1997-Jan-25
5.003_24 1997-Jan-29
5.003_25 1997-Feb-04
5.003_26 1997-Feb-10
5.003_27 1997-Feb-18
1310 5.003_28 1997-Feb-21
5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
5.003_91 1997-Mar-01
5.003_92 1997-Mar-06
5.003_93 1997-Mar-10
5.003_94 1997-Mar-22
5.003_95 1997-Mar-25
5.003_96 1997-Apr-01
1461 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 Fairly widely used.
5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05
5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08
5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10
5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13
5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15
5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17
5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18
5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24
5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25
5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28
1597 5.003_98 1997-Apr-30
5.003_99 1997-May-01
5.003_99a 1997-May-09
p54rc1 1997-May-12 Release Candidates.
p54rc2 1997-May-14
1643 Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
help them think they understand.
--Larry Wall
