Re: cvs2git: One possible bug, and two other issues

On 01/24/2011 12:17 AM, Anders Pilegaard wrote:
> Actually, it's not the commits themselves that bother me - it's the
> fact that I have to look at them ... :-) ... A good way of making them
> invisible would serve my purpose just as well.
> 
> Right now my best idea is to use the filters to eg. 'git log' to
> exclude these commits.  If I change the author of manufactured commits
> to something that is easy to exclude with a regexp, I can use the
> '--author' filter to avoid them.  Right now I'm using
> '--author="^[^c]"' - but that also excludes other authors that start
> with 'c', so I need to select a better first char ... :-)

If this is in a script (so you don't have to type it all the time, maybe
you could use something like

'--author="^([^c]|c[^v]|cv[^s]|cvs[^2])"'

(if git's regexp matching is capable enough).

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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