From: Jacob Kroon Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:33:50 GMT Subject: Re: Fixing author/email fields in commit messages Message-ID: <43F9005E.30901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Jon Nelson wrote: >>I modified git-convert-objects to perform just that task. >>I'll see if I can dig it up (I'm not able to do so right now). >> >> > >Attached. Notes: > >1. it's ugly >2. it's indented funny >3. it didn't seem to break anything for me, but no guarantees >4. it probably smells of elderberries >5. set your GIT_* environment up properly first or you'll wonder why it >doesn't work like I did. > > > Hi Jon, I've applied your patch to the latest git sources, and it compiles, but I'm not quite sure how to invoke the command. I've setup GIT_* env. variables, and git-convert-objects needs a sha1 identifier. I've tried passing "HEAD", and some other commit id's, but they don't seem to make any difference. Am I doing things right ? How exactly do I invoke the command to clean up the commit messages ? At least I don't get any error messages. //Jacob