Re: moving to git

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Andreas,

* Andreas Schwab wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:29:17PM CEST:
> There is a commit with a strange address:
> 
> commit 1e0e23c70dbbf7f62bd0a19fdd5730493c08f833
> Author: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Jul 14 22:51:59 2003 +0000
> 
>     * libtool.m4 (_LT_AC_LOCK): Also match powerpc64-*linux* in
>     addition to ppc64-*linux*.  From Markus Meissner
>     <address@hidden>.
> 
> Apparently this was extracted from the gnu.org mail archives which
> mangles text that looks like mail addresses (both should be @suse.de).

Well, I can easily fix both addresses in the git commit message.  But
the error in Markus' address is in the ChangeLog files, too.  I won't
rewrite the actual ChangeLog as part of history rewriting.  Besides that
it's error-prone, I also don't know how to automatize it well with git
filter-branch (it will correctly report a merge conflict for the
ChangeLog file splitup with changed contents).  Somebody messed up back
in 2003.

What we can do is fix the ChangeLog.1999 entry later, when the repo and
all has been set up properly, in a subsquent commit.

Cheers, and thanks for reporting this,
Ralf