2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21 is the last commit imported from CVS. All commits after that one have valid author and committer information. Use this to examine the change log for earlier changes: $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:auth/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:benchmarks/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:boot/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:config/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:console-client/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:console/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:daemons/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:defpager/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:doc/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:exec/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:ext2fs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:fatfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:fstests/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:ftpfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:hostmux/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:hurd/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:include/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:init/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:isofs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libcons/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libdirmgt/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libdiskfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libfshelp/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libftpconn/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libhurdbugaddr/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libihash/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libiohelp/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libnetfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libpager/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libpipe/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libports/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libps/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libshouldbeinlibc/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libstore/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libthreads/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:libtrivfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:login/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:mach-defpager/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:nfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:nfsd/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:pfinet/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:pflocal/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:proc/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:release/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:storeio/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:sutils/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:term/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:tmpfs/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:trans/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:usermux/ChangeLog $ git show 2772f5c6a6a51cf946fd95bf6ffe254273157a21:utils/ChangeLog