7ad6bae14fda9697fb6464d62177d92f203bb71f 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 7ad6bae14fda9697fb6464d62177d92f203bb71f:ChangeLog $ git show 7ad6bae14fda9697fb6464d62177d92f203bb71f:ChangeLog.1 $ git show 7ad6bae14fda9697fb6464d62177d92f203bb71f:ChangeLog.0 $ git show 7ad6bae14fda9697fb6464d62177d92f203bb71f:ChangeLog.00