Re: Fixing author/email fields in commit messages

From: Jon Nelson <jnelson-git@jamponi.net>
Date: Feb 19, 2006, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602191729100.6352@gheavc.wnzcbav.cig>
In-Reply-To: <43F9005E.30901@gmail.com>

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jacob Kroon wrote:

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> 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.

If I recall properly, it should be sufficient to invoke it with the sha1 of the HEAD branch.

Thus, you could use:

git-convert-objects $(git-rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD)

To do /all/ of the branches:

for branch in $(cat .git/refs/heads/* | sort | uniq); do
  git-convert-objects ${branch}
done

It should work on tags, too, although I only tested on my own git stuff which was converted from cvs.

-- Jon Nelson <jnelson-git@jamponi.net>