On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hg seems to store just anything in the author field ("committer"). The
> various interfaces that are floating around do some behind-the-back
> conversion to git format. The more conversions they do, the better they
> seem to work (no erroring out) but I'm wondering whether it's really a
> good thing, or whether we should encourage a more diligent approach
> which requires a user to map non-conforming author names wilfully.
So you propose that when somebody does 'git clone hg::hg hg-git' the
thing should fail. I hope you don't think it's too unbecoming for me
to say that I disagree.
IMO it should be git fast-import the one that converts these bad
authors, not every single tool out there. Maybe throw a warning, but
that's all. Or maybe generate a list of bad authors ready to be filled
out. That way when a project is doing a real conversion, say, when
moving to git, they can run the conversion once and see which authors
are bad and not multiple times, each try taking longer than the next.
--
Felipe Contreras
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