Re: gitweb wishlist

JCH> What _all_ Porcelain layer implementation would benefit from is JCH> if we had a common output format routine that is similar to the JCH> spirit of show_date() function. Have format_commit_fancy() JCH> function that takes a commit object and have it do the mapping.

Here is a small script called "whodunnit.sh", and its output can be cleaned up if we had a git-format-commit command that used format_commit_fancy(), that massages author/committer names (and probably some other prettyprinting), instead of plain old "git-cat-file commit".

#!/bin/sh
git-rev-list ${1:-HEAD} |
while read commit
do
	git-cat-file commit $commit |
	sed -ne '/^author \([^>]*>\).*/{s//\1/p;q;}'
done | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

The lines it currently spits out looks like this:

      6 ...
      8 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org.(none)>
        ...
    155 ...
    229 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

My suggestion for Thomas is not to volunteer changing cvsps-to-git to munge names at conversion time, but instead to volunteer doing the format_commit_fancy() on the core-ish side. It would read from $GIT_DIR/author-names which would be a plain text file that is a sequence of:

    "bogus name" TAB "good name" LF

where you would put ".(none)" version to "bogus" side and the corrected one on the "good" side.