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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Robert Haines <rhaines@manchester.ac.uk>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080124163719.GA17283@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424F1B0-7342-4436-9B4A-72D985DDA161@manchester.ac.uk>

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +0000, Robert Haines wrote:

> I was wondering if it would be able to go through and change all that to:
>
> author Name <email@address>
> etc
>
> Is this something that can be retrospectively done? Is it something that 
> can be done during cvsimport? Is it even doable?

David already answered the second question, and it is probably simpler
to just redo the import with -A unless there is some complication with
that (like you no longer have access to the CVS files).

However, to answer your first question: it can be fixed after the fact
by rewriting history within the git repository; see git-filter-branch.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-24 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24 15:12 CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers Robert Haines
2008-01-24 15:42 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-24 15:55   ` Robert Haines
2008-01-24 16:02     ` David Kastrup
2008-01-24 16:37 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-01-24 17:12   ` Robert Haines

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