On 17/09/15 17:08, Michael Matz wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > >> None of this has any chance of working for any commits to the pre-egcs >> sources. In those days there was no version control on the ChangeLog >> file. >> >> My feeling is we could spend months ratholing on this particular problem >> rather than making real progress on moving forward. If it will help to >> move things forward, I'm happy to accept that for the purposes of >> conversion we should just use 'committer id' and drop any attempt to >> reconstruct 'author id' for each patch. > > I don't see why the problems with some ranges of commits should prevent us > doing better for those ranges where there are no such problems. I thought > reposurgeon (I haven't looked at it) had the ability to postprocess > commits and dig out additional info, and assumed it would be more or less > trivial to add such sed-greping. > > > Ciao, > Michael. >
Well if that's the case then someone ought to be able to produce a meta file that could be supplied to Eric, that looked something like $SVN: r<nnnn> $Committer: <name> $Author:... $Author:... $Author:... ... $SVN:... $Committer: $NoAuthors .... For the entire repo. I'm sure if we had something like that, *and we were happy that it were accurate enough*, then it would be straight-forward enough to include it in the conversion process. No, I'm not going to do that work; and personally, I don't think it's worth holding up the switch to wait for that to be done. R.
