From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:42:15 +0100 Message-ID: <86r6g7dyco.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <1424F1B0-7342-4436-9B4A-72D985DDA161@manchester.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 24 16:43:06 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 1JI4EL-0006r5-85 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:43:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752602AbYAXPmc (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:42:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752537AbYAXPmb (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:42:31 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54786 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752137AbYAXPmb (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:42:31 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JI4Dg-0003Zk-T5 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:24 +0000 Received: from pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.91.15.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:24 +0000 Received: from dak by pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:42:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UXZwboSY8TFWvRLMwbPEdwLTla0= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Robert Haines writes: > Hi all, > > I am very new to git, but already impressed! I am in the process of > converting my old CVS repos into git. So far so good, it all works > with 'git cvsimport' but I was wondering about the author and > committer names. All mine have come out as the username of the person > who committed the change into CVS: > > author xxcguxx > committer xxcguxx > > 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? > > Any suggestions gratefully received! If everything else fails, read the documentation. man git-cvsimport [...] -A CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file in this format [...] -- David Kastrup