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CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers

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RHRobert Haines <rhaines@manchester.ac.uk>
Date
Jan 24, 2008, 15:12 UTC
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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!

Best wishes, Rob

-- Robert Haines

Research Associate, RealityGrid Tel. : +44 (0)161 275 6067 Research Computing Services Fax. : +44 (0)161 275 0637 Kilburn Building Email: rhaines@manchester.ac.uk University of Manchester Web : www.realitygrid.org Manchester, M13 9PL, UK : www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk

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