Re: Idle musing on default author mapping

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Why do we map a cvs author of "maxb" to a DVCS author of "maxb <maxb>"
>> instead of "maxb <>" ?
>>
>> The latter seems less redundant.
>
> git-fast-import requires the author to be specified as
>
>    'author' SP <name> SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF
>
> where "<email> is the person's email address".

Incidentally, this is purely a limitation of fastimport syntax.  I
know that Mercurial will happily accept any non-empty UTF-8 string as
the author name, and I believe Git is similarly permissive.  The
default for cvs2hg could easily be to convert the CVS authorname
as-is, just as with cvs2svn.

Greg

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