From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:04:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] git-svn: allow empty email-address in authors-prog and authors-file
Message-ID: <20180318230425.GB25017@80x24.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180311135835.9775-3-asheiduk@gmail.com>

Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> wrote:
> The email address in --authors-file and --authors-prog can be empty but
> git-svn translated it into a syntethic email address in the form
> $USERNAME@$REPO_UUID. Now git-svn behaves like git-commit: If the email
> is explicitly set to the empty string, the commit does not contain
> an email address.

What is missing is WHY "<>" is preferable to "<$USERNAME@$REPO_UUID>".

$USERNAME is good anyways since projects/organizations tie their
SVN usernames to email usernames via LDAP, making it easy to
infer their email address from $USERNAME.  The latter can also
be used to disambiguate authors if they happen to have the same
real name.

"<>" is completely meaningless.