From: Lars Schneider Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:25:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-p4: map a P4 user to Git author name and email address Message-ID: <61210CAD-D3D2-40AC-88F9-02169619F5F6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: > On 02 Mar 2016, at 06:06, Luke Diamand wrote: > > On 1 March 2016 at 19:15, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM, 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 ". >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider >>> --- >>> 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 " >>> +------------- >>> ++ >>> +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. I agree this is an occasional exception. I use it for users that have been deleted on the Perforce server. @Eric: If a user wants to they could create a custom gitconfig and then use the config "include" mechanism to achieve a "authors" file kind of approach. Cheers, Lars