Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message

[sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:03:36 -0800
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > ...   Apparently he is more or less
> > hand munging mutliple cvs branches into a nice git package for 
> > Linus to pull.  He said that many of the patches don't apply as-is
> > and need some manual tweaking before committing.
> 
> Then what is needed is an exporter from those cvs branches into
> git.  Well, don't we have one already?  If it does not work for
> dirty changes, wouldn't it be better to fix it so it is
> restartable, just like when rebase stops it lets you fix up and
> go on, without having you to write "From: " or GIT_AUTHOR_*
> yourself and just does the right thing?
> 

Yes perhaps there is some streamlining of the cvs importer that could
be done.  However, I got the impression from him that he was cherry 
picking stuff out of multiple cvs branches so perhaps that's beyond 
what the cvs importer was ever designed to handle.

Anyway, I think this is a more general problem than just the cvs 
importing case; the current interface for setting author information 
is brain damaged and a better method should be offered.

I think you're over estimating the downsides of allowing this to be
set the same was as it is in the git-am case and underestimating the
number of people who would find it useful, but I personally don't 
really care if you'd rather have it as a command line option.

Cheers,
Sean