Aliases and changing a repository

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Aidan Van Dyk

3 months ago

So, I inititially created the HylaFAX project, when we were using CVS, and made a CVS repo enlistment...

A few months ago, we switched to git. So now I've chnage the code enlistment to the git repository.

But, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to recognize that the "Aidan Van Dyk" commiting to that git repo (email: aidan@ifax.com) is the "Aidan Van Dyk" that I am (email: aidan@highrise.ca).

Is there any way to get that recognized? I haven't found a way to "alias" that, or add an "alternate" email address to my account?

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Aidan Van Dyk

20 days ago

Anybody any help here?

I commit to hylafax as "aidan@ifax.com" in git, and in CVS as "aidan"...

I had already claimed "aidan" on my account, but there seems to be no way I can say that I am also "aidan@ifax.com", so since we converted HylaFAX from CVS -> git, I've lost my status as a contributer... Every time I tri to click "I am this person" it says I'm already associated with HylaFAX (ya, I know), and to use aliases... how?

Please?

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Robin Luckey

20 days ago

Hi Aidan,

Sorry for the very delayed response, and also for the problematic Ohloh UI :-(.

I've cleaned up the name mappings, so you are now properly associated with your commits.

The trouble here is that aliases only work to map between currently active names -- aliases can't be used to map old, unused names from the old CVS.

On your account profile page, there is a small "EDIT" link next to each project. This link takes you to a form where you can edit the committer name you use in the project source control. I used this form to change your name from the old CVS name to the new Git name, and now everything seems OK.

Let me know if there's any more trouble.

Thanks, Robin

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