On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: ... > BTW, it might have been nice to have the initial git commits > for these tools attributed to the original author. Hindsight and all that :)
It would have been nice, indeed. When I agreed to do the job of maintaining the fileutils, textutils and shellutils packages, I tried hard to find a CVS repository (no dVCS existed back then), but as far as I could tell, if there had been one, it was gone. It was only reluctantly that I resorted to putting old tarballs on versioned release branches. While djm was the primary author for many tools, there were invariably commits by others, too, as seen in old/*/ChangeLog*. However, without some VCS files, it was not feasible to attribute. Even with ChangeLog+CVS, automated attribution as I did for the glibc cvs-to-git conversion was nontrivial: most commits were done by Ulrich, but ChangeLog usually gave the name of the "Author", and reliably mapping the cvs user-name or ChangeLog-attributed name to a git Real Name/email pair took some work.
