Re: [LTP] A note from Maintainer

[Michal S. <mic...@pe...>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 06 March 2010 05:25:10 Michal Simek wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Saturday 27 February 2010 02:53:48 Rishikesh K Rajak wrote:
>>>> We are in process of changing our sf.net host repository to
>>>> GIT from CVS.[ Any input/discussion on this is highly appreciable ].
>>> the authorship info really should be fixed before anything is finalized. 
>>> and a git hook added to reject people pushing patches that lack proper
>>> author/committer fields.  these commits by "root" are a good example of
>>> things that should not be happening.
>> Agree. Do you know about any manual how to fix it by any script or setup
>> that conversion? I mean to have any convert table where for example will
>> be written conversion:
>> vampier -> Mike Frysinger.
>> root -> Subrata Modak
> 
> i use this script:
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> tmp=$(mktemp)
> cat << \EOF > ${tmp}
> decode() {
> 	awk -vid="$1" -vtype="$2" '$1 == id {
> 		print "export GIT_"type"_NAME='\''" $3 " " $4 "'\'';"
> 		print "export GIT_"type"_EMAIL='\''" $5 "'\'';"
> 	}' ${author_file}
> }
> EOF
> 
> for x in cvs-authors authors ; do
> 	export author_file=${PWD}/.git/$x
> 	[ -e ${author_file} ] && break
> done
> git filter-branch \
> 	--env-filter ". ${tmp};"' \
> 		eval `decode "${GIT_AUTHOR_NAME}" AUTHOR`; \
> 		eval `decode "${GIT_COMMITTER_NAME}" COMMITTER`; \
> ' "$@"
> 
> rm -f $tmp
> 
> use a normal authors file in like .git/authors and run it.  the authors format 
> looks something like:
> vapier = Mike Frysinger <va...@ge...>

Nice. It is easy to use - there are only 20 people who did commits.
git shortlog -s | cut -c8-

I see that there are only three problematic names.
uid311324
uid52817
uid59787

Thanks for fixing that repo - just use that Mike's script with correct 
authors file.

Thanks,
Michal

> ...
> -mike


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