Re: Questions about git-fast-import for cvs2svn

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> >> 2. It appears that author/committer require an email address.  How
> >> important is a valid email address here?
> >
> > It's not necessary for the operation of Git itself; it's up to you to
> > decide how important the information is to your project.  You should
> > be able to set an empty email address for author or committer in
> > git fast-import as "name <>".
> 
> Don't do this; git-cvsimport and git-svn uses "name <name>"
> which is a saner compromise.  This way, you can add .mailmap to
> help later "git shortlog" to map using "<name>" part to more
> human friendly name.  Mapping at conversion time would also be
> good and git-cvsimport knows about it (I do not know about
> git-svn).

git-svn can do this, too.

I don't use it myself, but I remember the file format is the
same as the one git-svnimport and git-cvsimport use.

-- 
Eric Wong