Bug#845297: Migration to Salsa

Hello again

El 29/04/18 a las 15:01, Paul Wise escribió:
> On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 13:49 +0200, Alex Muntada wrote:
>
>> Therefore, it seems that we'll need to translate CVS revisions to
>> commit IDs at least once after the repository has been migrated
>> finally to git and before any translation is performed.
> Please note that smart_change.pl needs to work with the new workflow.
> This means that we can't use git commit IDs in translations headers,
> unless we want smart_change.pl to make two commits instead of one.
I'm not an expert but getting smart_change.pl doing 2 commits looks like
easy to understand (and maybe to implement?).
First commit for the english folder, and then other commit updating
translations.
> The alternative is to use git file+metadata hashes, which can be
> calculated before a commit happens, placed into translations headers
> and used to diff between two versions of a file. I'm not sure how well
> this will fit with the existing webwml VCS modules though.
>
No idea, either :/

Cheers