Re: weird tags in libtool's experimental git repo

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> I've had quite good results with this conversion, when done after your
> initial conversion (thanks BTW for help from Jim and the git list):
>
> git filter-branch -d /dev/shm/t --tree-filter '
>   line=`sed -n "s,^[12][90][0-9][0-9]-[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]  
> *\([A-Za-z].*\),\1,
>                 s,.*  \([A-Za-z].*\),\1,
>                 /./{
>                         s/(tiny change)//
>                         s/ *$//
>                         p
>                         q
>                 }" ChangeLog`
>   author=`echo "$line" | sed "s, *[<(].*,,"`
>   email=`echo "$line" | sed "s,[^,(]*[<(],<,; s/[)>].*/>/"`
>   test -n "$author" && test -n "$email" && {
>         GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$author"
>         GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$email"
>         export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
>   }'

Nice!
I wish git filter-branch existed back when I converted coreutils.

Assuming everyone agrees, I propose to rerun the cvs-to-git conversion
and to leave the repository in receive.denynonfastforwards=false mode
so you can apply whatever filters you want and push the resulting
server-repo-modifying changes.

Then, once you're happy with the result, set receive.denynonfastforwards
back to the default "true" setting.