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CVS to git: parsing ChangeLog entries?

From
RWRalf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 12, 2008, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20080312190827.GE3198@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Hello,

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.

Asking because it is not uncommon that patches are committed on behalf of other people, and it would be nice to credit them.

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?

Thank you, and please Cc: me on replies, Ralf

Next: Jeff King
Message 1 of 4 in “CVS to git: parsing ChangeLog entries?”
  1. Ralf WildenhuesMar 12, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  3. Ralf WildenhuesMar 15, 2008
  4. Michael HaggertyMar 14, 2008

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