From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:06:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-p4: map a P4 user to Git author name and email address
Message-ID: <CAE5ih7_EAjMtdNQ6ab2wrN4LMSBBZ=T7w-fPKLtdRqfvFUhzFQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRwEKjGaDA-jy8KJSAhTheJYDmxtPq8SdVs0LA2f9-9Yw@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Luke