Repository for the conversion machinery

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> None of this has any chance of working for any commits to the pre-egcs 
> sources.  In those days there was no version control on the ChangeLog 
> file.
> 
> My feeling is we could spend months ratholing on this particular problem 
> rather than making real progress on moving forward.  If it will help to 
> move things forward, I'm happy to accept that for the purposes of 
> conversion we should just use 'committer id' and drop any attempt to 
> reconstruct 'author id' for each patch.

I don't see why the problems with some ranges of commits should prevent us 
doing better for those ranges where there are no such problems.  I thought 
reposurgeon (I haven't looked at it) had the ability to postprocess 
commits and dig out additional info, and assumed it would be more or less 
trivial to add such sed-greping.


Ciao,
Michael.