Re: [Bug-wget] migration git repository

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Ángel González <address@hidden> writes:

> I see a problem with the new repository, though.
> The old mercurial commits seems to have preserved the author names in
> git, but many contributions by other people (as shown by the Changelog)
> are listed in git as authored by you.
> I think it should be rewritten to show in git the real authors.
>
> This would produce conflicts for the few people that may already have
> cloned it, but as they would be subscribed to this list and reacting on
> real time, they shouldn't have much problems accomodating :-)

I agree with you, the author should be changed to reflect who wrote the
patch and not who committed it.  I will try to write a script which does
it for me.

Cheers,
Giuseppe