From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:34:34 GMT Subject: Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <509CCCBC.8010102@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > 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. -- Felipe Contreras