From: Robert Haines <rhaines@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: CVS import: Changing/cleaning authors and committers
Message-ID: <259E26A1-C9A9-4A92-BB54-77B43AC9E590@manchester.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080124163719.GA17283@coredump.intra.peff.net>


On 24 Jan 2008, at 16:37, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +0000, Robert Haines wrote:
>
>> 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.

So ideally I would have spotted the -A flag originally! I have had  
something of an information overload with git, gitweb and so on  
recently.

I decided to re-import with the -A flag as there is (much) less  
chance of me mucking it up!

Thanks,
Rob