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Re: CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 24, 2008, 16:37 UTC
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<20080124163719.GA17283@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +0000, Robert Haines wrote:
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> 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?

David already answered the second question, and it is probably simpler to just redo the import with -A unless there is some complication with that (like you no longer have access to the CVS files).

However, to answer your first question: it can be fixed after the fact by rewriting history within the git repository; see git-filter-branch.

-Peff
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