Re: History cleanup/rewriting script for git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 20, 2007, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704202037140.8822@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070420155446.GA11506@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Jan Harkes wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:43:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm. However, I have to say that cogito serves/d another purpose 
> > > quite well: Look at what came from cogito into git. Loads of useful 
> > > enhancements. So, I really have to point to "at this stage", because 
> > > that sure was not true 18 months ago.
> > 
> > Absolutely. I think there are still some pieces of cogito that we 
> > might want to migrate into git too, although they're fairly esoteric 
> > (ie the whole history rewriting thing). And I think we still have some 
> > places
> 
> I actually have a fairly simple history rewriting script (written in 
> python) that I used when I converted some CVS archives to git.

Telling by your description, cg-admin-rewrite-hist is more capable. And I think it should not be too complicated to rewrite the cogito specific parts, what with the parts we added to Git with cogito as a model. And it is in Perl... which makes it more portable than Python in my part of the world.

Ciao, Dscho