> On 02 Mar 2016, at 06:06, Luke Diamand <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1 March 2016 at 19:15, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM, <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Map a P4 user to a specific name and email address in Git with the >>> "git-p4.mapUser" config. The config value must be a string adhering >>> to the format "p4user = First Lastname <email@xxxxxxxxxxx>". >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt >>> +git-p4.mapUser:: >>> + Map a P4 user to a name and email address in Git. Use a string >>> + with the following format to create a mapping: >>> ++ >>> +------------- >>> +git config --add git-p4.mapUser "p4user = First Last <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx>" >>> +------------- >>> ++ >>> +A mapping will override any user information from P4. Mappings for >>> +multiple P4 user can be defined. >> >> Sorry for not paying closer attention the first time, but this needs >> to be repeated for each P4 user you want to map, right? One can >> imagine this quickly becoming painful if you have a lot of users to >> map. Have you considered modeling this after git-svn where you can set >> an "authors" file (and name the corresponding option --authors-file)? > > For most authors it should just use the existing Perforce user > information. This is (I assume) just for the occasional exception > where Perforce has the wrong email address. I agree this is an occasional exception. I use it for users that have been deleted on the Perforce server. @Eric: If a user wants to they could create a custom gitconfig and then use the config "include" mechanism to achieve a "authors" file kind of approach. Cheers, Lars-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html