Re: State of the conversion

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Daniel J Sebald <dan...@ie...>:
> Oh, OK.  Yeah, I've found a command that does it without even having to
> change the code (posted at the patch-tracker):
> 
> git log --format='commit <%cE!%cIZ>' -p --unified=50 ChangeLog >
> ChangeLog.diff
> git_changelog_author ChangeLog.diff > author.txt
> 
> The "commit" in the first column is what the utility is searching for. So
> the list then looks like this:
> 
> <sfeam!2017-09-04T05:57:37+00:00Z> 2017-09-03 Daniel J Sebxxx
> <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> <sfeam!2017-09-03T23:28:50+00:00Z> 2017-09-03 Ethan A Merrxxx
> <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> <sfeam!2017-09-03T03:35:30+00:00Z> 2017-09-02 Ethan A Merrxxx
> <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> <markisch!2017-09-01T05:21:00+00:00Z> 2017-09-01 Bastian Maerkixxx
> <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> <sfeam!2017-08-31T23:03:55+00:00Z> 2017-08-31 Martin Satuxxx <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> <sfeam!2017-08-30T20:30:12+00:00Z> 2017-08-24 Ethan A Merrxxx
> <xxxxxx@xxxxxx>
> 
> which has the person who committed the changeset and author.  Nice.

OK, I can easily massage that report into a set of reposurgeon commands
that will patch in the author fields.
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