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

> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 08:34 +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > (Re-post. Sorry for any inconvenience.)
> >
> > On September 14, 2005 23:34 Petr Baudis wrote:
> > > 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)... ;-)
> >
> > git uses cvsps output to determine authorship. Do you think if this
> > problem should be solved on cvsps side? It should be relatively easy
> > IMHO. David, can you add another key to output CVSROOT/users mapping
> > result instead of usernames if available?
>
> I apologize that I probably won't have time to look at this right now...
>
> David