On Friday 28 January 2011 00.06.21 Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > John Tapsell wrote: > > 2011/1/27 Nicolás Alvarez <[email protected]>: > >> Please, help review the repositories before migration! Unlike KDE > >> software, here we won't have point releases to fix bugs later :) > > > > I have quite a few commits in kdebase-workspace with the commit message: > > > > SVN_SILENT: > > Do blahblah > > > > and > > > > GUI: > > do blah blah > > > > > > Since git places a high important on the very first line, could we > > mangle these into "SVN_SILENT: Do blahblah" and "GUI: do blah blah" > > > > ? > > > > So check if the first line contains only a keyword, and if so combine > > with next line? > > It's technically possible, but it may involve a lot of manual work. > > And many people (not including me) disagree with this kind of history edits; > for example: "<Sho_> IMHO the objective is to import the SVN history > faithfully and accurately"
While I agree with Eike here, I think that in this case we can make an exception, however I do not like the idea of git-filter-branch. How about we simply rewrite the message in svn2git? /Regards Torgny
