Aw: Re: Re: AW: Status update - version 5.2.2, cvs->git conversion, plans

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

> Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. November 2017 um 21:10 Uhr
> Von: sfeam <sf...@us...>
> On Sunday, 19 November 2017 20:39:57 Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> 
> > Although the "setfield" lines now work, adding such statements to reconvert seems to 
> > break the repository conversion:
> > 
> > reposurgeon: exporting...fatal: Expected committer but didn't get opne
> > 
> > I am giving up. The automatic ChangeLog conversion does a great job. As far as I can 
> > tell there are <100 manual attribution changes we could argue about.
> > 
> > Ethan,  the repo "gnuplot-trunk" was in my opinion converted using an older version
> > of Eric Raymond's script which got the attribution wrong if the ChangeLog change did
> > not include the author line.  There are quite a number of these.  E.g. there are ~120
> > of your committs which claim I am the author. But this is only true for very few of
> > them:
> > git log --committer=Ethan --author=Bastian --oneline
> > So - in my opinion - one further iteration of conversion is in order.
> 
> I used a version that Eric sent me on 04-Nov-2017.
> I have not seen a newer version.  
> Is there one?
> 
> 	Ethan
> 

Hhm.  The version I have is 4-Nov-2017, too.  But then again the above git log command
only gives me 19 entries when I convert locally.

  Bastian