Re: CVS to git: parsing ChangeLog entries?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:08:27PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> 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.

I don't think there is a way to do this automatically with
git-cvsimport. However, once imported, I think you could rewrite history
using git-filter-branch with a filter that looked at the diff of
ChangeLog for that commit and rewrote the author. See the documentation
for git-filter-branch.

> 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?

I don't think git-cvsimport does much with encodings at all. But again,
you could probably go back through the imported repo with
git-filter-branch and iconv the commit messages as appropriate.

-Peff