Re: Aw: New spin of repository conversion

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/18/2017 03:25 PM, "Bastian Märkisch" wrote:
> Thank you for the new version.  Overall the attribution algorithm
> seems to work remarkably well! There are a number of cases though
> were it fails.
> 
> Here's an example (picked more or less randomly):
> https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/git-main/ci/26f769db9e954052b11dbc8f242fc35a3cfd6880/
> This one is attributed to Ethan, although the change is by me.
> The reason seems to be that the Changelog entry is inserted below
> an entry by Ethan on the same day.  I think that is not an uncommon
> case, in fact I quickly found around a dozen such cases.  Can this
> be taken into account or do we have to check manually?

This why in the algorithm I wrote the search is backward from the first 
change in ChangeLog.

Dan