On 2013-09-19, at 3:41 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/18/13 17:38, Guy Harris wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I admit to authoring pkt-from-core.py, but I doubt it actually still works. Nevertheless, I have updated the license in the file.
>>>
>>> I don't remember the others, though.
> [...]
>>> doc/dfilter2pod.pl
>>>
>>> Gilbert Ramirez
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> r2171 | gram | 2000-07-28 09:30:28 -0700 (Fri, 28 Jul 2000) | 4 lines
>>
>> Don't create dfilter2pod from dfilter2pod.in just for @PERL_PATH@; it's
>> a waste of time. Instead, set $(PERL) to @PERL_PATH@ in the Makefile and
>> call dfilter2pod.pl via $(PERL) $(src_dir)/dfilter2pod.pl
>
> In this revision doc/dfilter2pod.pl was created from doc/dfilter2pod.in (which was actually deleted in the subsequent r2172).
>
> Looking at *that* file's revision history shows that it was created in r372:
>
>> Revision 372 - (view) (download) - [select for diffs]
>> Added Tue Jul 20 08:02:24 1999 UTC (14 years, 2 months ago) by guy
>> File length: 2591 byte(s)
>>
>> Don't depend on Perl being in "/usr/bin/perl"; find it, and generate a
>> "dfilter2pod" with the path of Perl in its "#!" line.
>
> In this revision doc/dfilter2.pod.in was created from doc/dfilter2pod .
>
> Looking at *that* file's revision history shows that it was created in r364:
>
>> Revision 364 - (view) (download) - [select for diffs]
>> Added Thu Jul 15 15:33:52 1999 UTC (14 years, 2 months ago) by gram
>> File length: 2591 byte(s)
>>
>> Modified the proto_register_field_array usage again. Thanks to Guy's
>> suggestion, this new method using a static array should use less memory
>> and be faster. It also has a nice side-effect of making the source-code
>> more readble, IMHO.
>>
>> Changed the print routines to look for protocol proto_data instead of
>> looking at the text label as they did before, hoping that the data hex
>> dump field item starts with "Data (".
>>
>> Added the -G keyword to ethereal to make it dump a glossary of display
>> filter keywords to stdout and exit. This data is then formatted with
>> the doc/dfilter2pod perl program to pod format, which is combined
>> with doc/ethereal.pod.template to create doc/ethereal.pod, from which
>> the ethereal manpage is created. This way we can keep the manpage up-to-date
>> with a list of fields that can be filtered on.
>
> So, despite the convoluted history, the script still appears to have been created by Gilbert.
>
Tangentially, you may be able to use git log --follow to generate this complete history for you if I understand the way it works correctly (without doing it in chunks and manually following renames).
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