Hi All,
A very special thanks to both eschwartz and eureka for their invaluable help figuring out how to edit the commit metadata and for developing authors.py.
I have now used these tools on my own tree. I decided to keep the Authors information in the commit messages since some commits are actually multiple releases and this way people will know who committed what.
I still violate the 50 char rule (argh!) and the initial capitalization rule but since these are historic commits imported from outside of GitHub, I am hoping no one will mind too much.
I will try to use both the 50 char limit and first word capitalized rules for all new commits to the tree.
Hope everyone is now happy with the result.
https://github.com/kevinhendricks/KindleUnpack
Thanks,
KevinH