From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:34:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added an option to cvsimport to specify email domain
Message-ID: <20050914193457.GE2936@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vhdcw661g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:18:03PM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> 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.

Various tools use CVSROOT/users to map usernames to realname <email>.
I actually wanted to send a patch, looked at the cvsimport script and
got totally scared away (at least for now)... ;-)

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