Re: Progress on the git repo cleanup

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>:
> I have another request for cleanup: it has been pointed out that my repo
> has four commits that are rejected by modern git because the author does
> not conform to the usual conventions:
> 
> commit 676f341
> Author:  <Thomas>
> Date:   Wed May 7 19:19:04 1997 +0000
> 
> commit 7fb42a2
> Author:  <Thomas>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 22:20:09 1996 +0000
> 
> commit b563928
> Author:  <Thomas>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 21:51:00 1996 +0000
> 
> commit dd17baf
> Author:  <Thomas>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 21:43:48 1996 +0000
> 
> The author should be changed to "Thomas Bushnell, BSG <address@hidden>".

It is already done (well, excpt for the "BSG" - what does that mean?).
The relevant section of the lift file looks like this:

#
# Fix up some CVS usernames that apparently didn't get converted during
# the CVS lift. 
#
authors read <<EOF
thomas = Thomas Bushnell <address@hidden>
monnier = Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
EOF

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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>