Robert Haines <rhaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <xxcguxx> > committer xxcguxx <xxcguxx> > > 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? > > Any suggestions gratefully received! If everything else fails, read the documentation. man git-cvsimport [...] -A <author-conv-file> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
