On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:33:28PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2019, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > > > I think having author names and email addresses is a basic requirement of > > > any reasonable repository conversion > > > > Yes, and they should be the same as they were in the original repository. > > That's what the "changelogs" feature in reposurgeon does, when the commit > that made the change also added a ChangeLog entry. > > In the case where the commit didn't add a ChangeLog entry, a name and > email address from an author map is the best we can practically do (and I
IMO the best we can do is use what we already have: what CVS or SVN used as the committer identity. *That* info is *correct* at least. In many cases we can glance someone's real name from the changelog, sure. People looking up things can trivially do that, and with much better accuracy than any script can. In some other cases you cannot, no matter how hard you try. > think it's much better than having something that never was a valid name > and email address for author or committer at all). The fields in Git are just called "Author" and "Commit". Not "real name" or "email address" or anything like that. It is just text. Git does not require anything specific about what you put here. Segher
