Re: Migration from CVS to GIT

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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Niels M=F6ller wrote:

> I'm finally looking into conversion of the lsh repository from CVS to
> GIT, and this naturally also includes nettle.

This is great news!

> If this first steps works out ok, step two is to do a some cleanups
> (switching to utf-8 for the files, deleting old $Id$ tags, etc). And th=
en
> step three is to extract the nettle subdirectory as an independent
> project and repository, using git subtree of git filter-branch or so
> (I'm not sure what's the best tool for that job). Other sub-projects,
> e.g., the argp implementation, can be split out later, if desired.

I'd hope for a round of filter-branch to rewrite author names in git to=20
the original author of patches. I haven't done it myself, but I've seen i=
t=20
done on other projects. One can do some kind of more or less heuristic=20
shell script that e.g. greps the commit message for known strings (either=
=20
known contributors or strings like "From:" or "contributed by") and based=
=20
on these override the author name.

If you don't feel up to doing this yourself, I can try to give it a go.

// Martin
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