From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Wildenhues Subject: CVS to git: parsing ChangeLog entries? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:08:27 +0100 Organization: Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn Message-ID: <20080312190827.GE3198@ins.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 12 20:10:02 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 1JZWK7-0004JF-Ft for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:09:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751772AbYCLTId (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751756AbYCLTId (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:33 -0400 Received: from merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.223.13]:43310 "EHLO merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751754AbYCLTIc (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:32 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (xdsl-87-78-70-167.netcologne.de [87.78.70.167]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0981F400026B8 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:08:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from ralf by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JZWJP-0001AN-F9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:08:27 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Ralf Wildenhues , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, when migrating a project that uses GNU-style ChangeLogs from CVS to git, is it possible to extract patch author information from the ChangeLog entries rather than from the CVS commit logs? For simplicity let's first assume the project used only one ChangeLog file. Asking because it is not uncommon that patches are committed on behalf of other people, and it would be nice to credit them. Related question: when CVS commit logs have varying encoding, say, some latin1 and some UTF-8, is it possible to have uniformly encoded git log entries? Thank you, and please Cc: me on replies, Ralf