Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st> writes: > I'd hope for a round of filter-branch to rewrite author names in git > to the original author of patches.
I was thinking that it's good enough to convert the information recorded by cvs. But it's certainly possible to add specified author names for certain commits, as a part of the conversion process. The config/Pike-real-authors file (from the git://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pcvs2git.git repository) is an example of what that input file should look like. Since I haven't used it I'm not sure how it works, but I could try to find out. But it's going to be some manual work, going through the ChangeLog files looking for contributed changes, and then looking at the cvs log to identify affected revisions and writing the input file for --contributors. > If you don't feel up to doing this yourself, I can try to give it a go. If you want to give it a try, I'll explain what's needed. 1. Get pike 7.8 release 550 or later, http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.8.550/Pike-v7.8.550.tar.gz Annoyingly enough, it doesn't support the most recent version of nettle, resulting in compilation errors on the DES glue. I had to #if out the DES and DES3 ciphers from the Nettle module. Alternatively, there should be some configure argument to force Pike to build with the bundled version of nettle, rather than the installed version. 2. Get git://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pcvs2git.git. This includes Henrik's configuration file in config/lsh.pcvs2git. 3. Get the CVS repository. I'm putting a copy at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/misc/lsh-cvsroot.tar.gz 4. Create an authors.txt file, containing nisse=Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> uid444=Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> _cvs_pont=Pontus Freyhult <p...@soua.net> 5. To do the conversion, I used the command line pike ../pcvs2git/pcvs2git.pike -c ../pcvs2git/config/lsh.pcvs2git \ -A authors.txt -k -l -C lsh.git -d lsh-cvsroot/lsh It spawns a git fast-import process which populates the new repository. The result should be almost identical to the current "test-2" repository (Henrik has committed some tweaks for the generated .gitattributes files). To use a contributors file, add --contributors contributors.txt early on the above command line (the -d option and argument has to come after other options). Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP-encrypted email is preferred. Keyid C0B98E26. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance. _______________________________________________ lsh-bugs mailing list lsh-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/lsh-bugs
