Re: Fixing author/email fields in commit messages

From: Jon Nelson <jnelson-git@jamponi.net>
Date: 2006-02-20 10:01:03
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Jon Nelson wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> 
> > When I started my git repository for my project, I never setup GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
> > etc. correctly,
> > so my commit messages used the default information, "<jacob@skeletor.(none)>",
> > "skeletor" being the
> > hostname of the computer I'm working on. I'd like to change it so that the
> > messages will contain correct
> > information about my e-mail and username. I noticed that this question has
> > been brought up here before
> > and that the solution might be to use git-convert-objects, but that it might
> > need some modifications.
> > 
> > Has anyone come up with a working tool for this task ?
> 
> I modified git-convert-objects to perform just that task.
> I'll see if I can dig it up (I'm not able to do so right now).

Attached. Notes:

1. it's ugly
2. it's indented funny
3. it didn't seem to break anything for me, but no guarantees
4. it probably smells of elderberries
5. set your GIT_* environment up properly first or you'll wonder why it 
doesn't work like I did.

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Jon Nelson <jnelson-git@jamponi.net>
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