git dynamic mail by url using the post-checkout hook

mkdir ~/.git-templates

git config --global init.templatedir ~/.git-templates

git config -l

mkdir -p ~/.git-templates
tar -xvzf git-templates.tgz -C ~/.git-templates

get the url

cd ~/some-git-repo
git ls-remote --get-url 'origin'

EDIT ~/.gitconfig and add an entry

[user "url-from--get-url"]
    email = sample@eml
    name = name surname

check it is working

git clone <url-from--get-url>

references: git-templates.tgz

git-http

create a repository

cd /var/git
mkdir my-new-repo.git
cd my-new-repo.git
git --bare init

/etc/apache2/conf-available/git-http.conf:

SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /var/git
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/lib/git-core/git-http-backend
#/usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} service=git-receive-pack [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /git-receive-pack$
RewriteRule ^/git/ - [E=AUTHREQUIRED:yes]

<LocationMatch "^/git/">
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from env=AUTHREQUIRED
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Git Access"
#        Require group committers
#        Satisfy Any
        AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwd.git
        Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>

enable the conf, create the user/password

a2enconf git-http    
htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/passwd.git <user>
# restart apache

Having an alien FILE-edited.c find which version in git repository is the most similar

git log --pretty=format:%h FILE.c | \
while read -r HASH ; do \
    git checkout $HASH; \
    WCL=$(diff FILE.c FILE-edited.c|wc -l); \
echo "$WCL $HASH"; done |sort |head

rsync from sourceforge and migrate to git

rsync -av "PROJECT.cvs.sourceforge.net::cvsroot/PROJECT/*" /tmp/old-cvs

cd /tmp/new-git
git cvsimport -A /tmp/names -o master -d /tmp/old-cvs module

where /tmp/names have the format:

unixname=Real Name <mail>