Re: [PATCH 7/7] cvsserver: Use the user part of the email in log and annotate results

> On 25/03/2008, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:50:55PM +0100, Damien Diederen wrote:
>>  > +# Generate a CVS author name from Git author information, by taking
>>  > +# the first eight characters of the user part of the email address.
>>  > +sub cvs_author
>>  > +{
>>  > +    my $author = shift;
>>  > +
>>  > +    $author =~ s/.*<([^>]+)\@[^>]+>$/$1/;
>>  > +    $author =~ s/^(.{8}).*/$1/;
>>
>> IMHO substr($author, 0, 8) would be easier to read here. (It is also
>>  much faster according to some quick benchmarks I just ran)
>
> While we're at nitpicking:
> Faster, shorter, and probably more robust if no @ appears in the email address:
>
> my $author_line = shift;
> (my $author) = $author_line =~ /<([^>@]{1,8})/;