From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20080124163719.GA17283@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <1424F1B0-7342-4436-9B4A-72D985DDA161@manchester.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Robert Haines X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 24 17:37:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JI55O-000612-4I for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:37:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752517AbYAXQhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbYAXQhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:23 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4465 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752515AbYAXQhW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 15178 invoked by uid 111); 24 Jan 2008 16:37:20 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:20 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1424F1B0-7342-4436-9B4A-72D985DDA161@manchester.ac.uk> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 > 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