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 -- 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
