Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?)

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 9, 2012, 14:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3Lhxzcj93=e8TXwqAVvGJBKhZEVX33G8Q=n2+8+UfCww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <509CCCBC.8010102@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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> Hg seems to store just anything in the author field ("committer"). The
> various interfaces that are floating around do some behind-the-back
> conversion to git format. The more conversions they do, the better they
> seem to work (no erroring out) but I'm wondering whether it's really a
> good thing, or whether we should encourage a more diligent approach
> which requires a user to map non-conforming author names wilfully.

So you propose that when somebody does 'git clone hg::hg hg-git' the thing should fail. I hope you don't think it's too unbecoming for me to say that I disagree.

IMO it should be git fast-import the one that converts these bad authors, not every single tool out there. Maybe throw a warning, but that's all. Or maybe generate a list of bad authors ready to be filled out. That way when a project is doing a real conversion, say, when moving to git, they can run the conversion once and see which authors are bad and not multiple times, each try taking longer than the next.

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Felipe Contreras