everyone, please run these commands on every computer you have Git

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Magnus
Bergmark<magnus.bergmark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not saying that it is wanted or anything, but there is a possibility of
> rewriting the global history by using the filter-commits command. (Unsure
> about the name, but I know it exists)
> It basically lets you run a script on every commit in the entire history.
> Great for removing deep references to copyrighted material, change names of
> commiters, and so on. This could be run directly after the svn import so
> it's impossible to muck up people's private clones, but it would "rewrite
> history" and that could be a very bad thing for some projects.

Well all the names and emails from SVN are good.

> More often the GUI should be able to pair them together. Redmine (a
> trac-like software) can do this association, as can GitHub AFAIR. Perhaps
> this is something for the Gitorious team to add.

Gitorious does already kind of. A user can add multiple email aliases.

Ian