Mode of the Reposturgeon!
<p>It was inevitable, I suppose; reposurgeon now has its own Emacs mode.</p>
<p>The most laborious task in the reposurgeon conversion of a large CVS or Subversion repository is editing the comment history.  You want to do this for two reasons: (1) to massage multiline comments into the summary-line + continuation form that plays well with git log and gitk, and (2) lifting Subversion and CVS commit references from, e.g., &#8216;2345&#8217; to [[SVN:2345]] so reposurgeon can recognize them unambiguously and turn them into <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3872">action stamps</a>.</p>
<p>In the new release 2.22, there&#8217;s a small Emacs mode with several functions that help semi-automate this process.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/">Fear the reposturgeon!</a></p>
