Hi, On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote: > > > > > With your kind help, I've been able to convert a cvs repository to > > > git, but the last several years commits start with a line saying > > > "Summary;" :-( I thought it might not be hard to put a filter > > > between git-fast-export and git-fast-import to sort it out. > > > > The better tool for this should be filter-branch. > > filter-branch does look to be brilliant for this sort of thing, > but I don't think I can use it in my case. I beg to differ. filter-branch does exactly the same as the fast-export | filter | fast-import you prosed does: it rewrites history. The thing is, filter-branch was _written for this purpose_. So if you know what commit you rewrote last, you can make the process faster/safer by issuing $ git filter-branch --msg-filter="<blabla>" <old-commit>..master There's also a further upside to filter-branch: at least until recently, it did not use any special features of newer git, but could be extracted (e.g. via gitweb) and used with older git (any git >= 1.5.3 should do, maybe even older ones). Hth, Dscho P.S.: but you seem to be dead-set to upgrade. No problem for me: just go ahead and do what you must. - 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
