Re: [PATCH] Added an option to cvsimport to specify email domain

> David K?.A?Negedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> 
> > The authorship info in commits created by git-cvsimport-script
> > only contains the username of the CVS committer.  This patch
> > adds a flag -e <domain> to git-cvsimport-script that makes it
> > possible to specify an email domain that is added to all email
> > addresses in the commit "author" and "committer" fields.
> >
> > ---
> > I have stopped using cvsimport, because cvsps seems to produce bad
> > output on the repository I'm using it with, but I had already prepared
> > this patch.
> 
> Hmph.  One reason the original implementation did not do this is
> because Linus and other people wanted to have a repeatability,
> so making this an optional thing is good, but if we go this
> route, I think if it would be nicer to have a --author-map
> option that lets you feed a list of:
> 
>     <author> ==> "A U Thor <author@author.dom>"
> 
> mappings, instead of a single -e, which essentially does not add
> much information to the result.
> 
> I take that your oob comment indicates that you do not have much
> incentive/inclination to further hack on this, so I am not
> asking you to do the above even if you find my suggestion
> worthwhile.