Re: moving to git

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:36:46PM CEST:
> On 13 Apr 2008, at 08:42, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> I can try to adjust my filter-branch script to rewrite those commits
>> that have an empty CVS log message, to use the ChangeLog diff.
>> That should help, so I'll try this.
>
> If it's easy, that would be great.  It's not worth burning much effort
> over though IMHO.

It turns out to be more complicated than I thought.  If somebody else
wants to pursue this, please ping me, I'll send what I have.  Otherwise
I'll let it be.

> Maybe just matching commits with '^   From .*@', containing no blank
> lines, and using the email address as the Author Name if necessary will
> catch a good portion without too much effort?

Tried that, looks like I will need several tries to get that right.
So I'll let the same as above apply: if we have another volunteer,
I'll hand over.

We're still doing much better than we did for Autoconf and Automake
(sigh).

Cheers,
Ralf