[Savannah-hackers] Re: Editing author names in RCS files

[Sylvain Beucler]

>     Using a patch to 'cvs admin' as suggested at info-cvs looks like the
>     way to go.
> 
> If you diff the results and they look correct, then you could install
> the modified files.  You'd have to turn off access temporarily while
> doing this, I guess.

I replaced 'uid65618' with 'miles' in a copy of the emacs repository
and there was no error.

I'll write some grepping script to get all the uids that need to be
changed.


Also, I got some warning during the process due to invalid symbolic
links in the repository. Here are the affected files (note that they
are all are deleted files).

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          48 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/gnus/Attic/mailheader.el,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/lisp/gnus/RCS/mailheader.el,v
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          38 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/Attic/ymakefile,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/RCS/ymakefile,v
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          42 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/s/Attic/=convexos.h,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/s/RCS/=convexos.h,v
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          39 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/s/Attic/=mach2.h,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/s/RCS/=mach2.h,v
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          40 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/s/Attic/=sol2-2.h,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/s/RCS/=sol2-2.h,v
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     emacs          42 Dec 17  2003 
/savannah/cvsroot/emacs/cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/s/Attic/windows95.h,v -> 
/gd/gnu/emacs/19.0/src/s/RCS/windows95.h,v

Any clue?

-- 
Sylvain