Re: [PATCH v2] git-p4: map a P4 user to Git author name and email address

> On 02 Mar 2016, at 06:06, Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1 March 2016 at 19:15, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM,  <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Map a P4 user to a specific name and email address in Git with the
>>> "git-p4.mapUser" config. The config value must be a string adhering
>>> to the format "p4user = First Lastname <email@address.com>".
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
>>> +git-p4.mapUser::
>>> +       Map a P4 user to a name and email address in Git. Use a string
>>> +       with the following format to create a mapping:
>>> ++
>>> +-------------
>>> +git config --add git-p4.mapUser "p4user = First Last <mail@address.com>"
>>> +-------------
>>> ++
>>> +A mapping will override any user information from P4. Mappings for
>>> +multiple P4 user can be defined.
>> 
>> Sorry for not paying closer attention the first time, but this needs
>> to be repeated for each P4 user you want to map, right? One can
>> imagine this quickly becoming painful if you have a lot of users to
>> map. Have you considered modeling this after git-svn where you can set
>> an "authors" file (and name the corresponding option --authors-file)?
> 
> For most authors it should just use the existing Perforce user
> information. This is (I assume) just for the occasional exception
> where Perforce has the wrong email address.