Re: Aw: New spin of repository conversion

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

Daniel J Sebald <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

I don't know what you mean by "backward". "First" is topmost? 
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