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[updated PATCH] Same default as cvsimport when using --use-log-author

From
Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date
Apr 27, 2008, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20080427173246.10023.5687.stgit@aristoteles.cuci.nl>

When using git-cvsimport, the author is inferred from the cvs commit, e.g. cvs commit logname is foobaruser, then the author field in git results in:

Author: foobaruser <foobaruser>
Which is not perfect, but perfectly acceptable given the circumstances.
The default git-svn import however, results in:
Author: foobaruser <foobaruser@acf43c95-373e-0410-b603-e72c3f656dc1>

When using mixes of imports, from CVS and SVN into the same git repository, you'd like to harmonise the imports to the format cvsimport uses. git-svn supports an experimental option --use-log-author which currently results in:

Author: foobaruser <unknown>

This patches harmonises the result with cvsimport, and makes git-svn --use-log-author produce:

Author: foobaruser <foobaruser>
Signed-off-by: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
---
 git-svn.perl |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index b151049..846e739 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -2434,6 +2434,9 @@ sub make_log_entry {
 		} else {
 			($name, $email) = ($name_field, 'unknown');
 		}
+	        if (!defined $email) {
+		    $email = $name;
+	        }
 	}
 	if (defined $headrev && $self->use_svm_props) {
 		if ($self->rewrite_root) {
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  1. Same default as cvsimport when using --use-log-authorStephen R. van den Berg, Apr 27, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2008
  3. Eric WongApr 29, 2008
  4. Andy WhitcroftApr 29, 2008
  5. Stephen R. van den BergApr 29, 2008
  6. git-svn: Same default as cvsimport when using --use-log-authorStephen R. van den Berg, Apr 29, 2008
  7. Eric WongMay 1, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2008

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