Am 1/28/2011 10:31, schrieb Torgny Nyblom: > On Friday 28 January 2011 00.06.21 Nicolas Alvarez wrote: >> John Tapsell wrote: >>> 2011/1/27 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>: >>>> 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" >> >> 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?
Doesn't it operate with a git-fast-import stream? Wouldn't it just mean to flip a LF to a SP here and there? You wouldn't even have to change the byte-length of the commit messages. -- Hannes
