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

> 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)... ;-)