From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Wong Subject: Re: Questions about git-fast-import for cvs2svn Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:35:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20070716033540.GB29521@muzzle> References: <469A2B1D.2040107@alum.mit.edu> <20070715120149.3271b736.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <7vd4ytebsw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sean , Michael Haggerty , "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 16 05:35:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAHNB-00019O-Lx for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:35:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759459AbXGPDfm (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:35:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760046AbXGPDfm (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:35:42 -0400 Received: from hand.yhbt.net ([66.150.188.102]:42452 "EHLO hand.yhbt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759038AbXGPDfl (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:35:41 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hand.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F8F2DC08D; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vd4ytebsw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sean 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 " > which is a saner compromise. This way, you can add .mailmap to > help later "git shortlog" to map using "" 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