Aw: Re: News spin of repository conversion

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

> 
> Hence, what is really happening above is a search for the first author 
> line that comes at or after 'changeline'.  That's not correct.
> 
>  From step 3, I think you meant to place the test of 'n' and 
> 'changeline' at the front of loop and 'break' (on >) instead.  I.e.,
> 
>      if n > changeline:
>          break
>      if ',' in line:
>          # Multiple attributions...ignore for now
>          continue
>      # Deal with some address masking
>      line = line.replace(" <at> ", "@")
>      space = line.find(" ")
>      if space < 0:
>          continue
> ETC.
> 
> It should break if "n > changeline", not if "n >= changeline", because 
> we want to include the scenario of author info at the first changed line 
> (which is the most typical scenario).

No quite the end of the story, though.  With that change I get 135 
"no time stamp matching" errors.

  Bastian