Re: New spin of repository conversion

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

Juhász Péter <pet...@gm...>:
> I've found a single instance of my name in the file, which incidentally
> points to an edge case: I had modified the Changelog file itself
> (fixing the date of the entry). Perhaps this warrants a SQUASH.

Thanks, comment added.

> I've also scanned through the commits attributed to me in the new git
> repo, and I strongly suspect that some of those were not done by me.
> E.g. 63bc0f364a43d74ceca514a1954e2efa6c4ad7f6,
> dc3d0aa052b1af8563624f46516f27def76fdb80, and
> f2093b012b3b58842ae825439bfeec85b01fa8c3 are attributed to me but they
> were obviously committed by Bastian Maerkisch. (So I confirm his
> finding here). The reason indeed seems to be that unrelated changes by
> the same author, on the same day were squashed in the Changelog, and
> change-groups belonging to different authors, on the same day are
> listed in arbitrary order, even though this confuses the actual order
> of the changes.

Sigh.  There's nothing algorithmic I can do about that.  You guys will
hae to find the exception commits by hand and tell me how to re-attribute
them.
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