Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The email address in --authors-file and --authors-prog can be empty but > git-svn translated it into a syntethic email address in the form > $USERNAME@$REPO_UUID. Now git-svn behaves like git-commit: If the email > is explicitly set to the empty string, the commit does not contain > an email address. What is missing is WHY "<>" is preferable to "<$USERNAME@$REPO_UUID>". $USERNAME is good anyways since projects/organizations tie their SVN usernames to email usernames via LDAP, making it easy to infer their email address from $USERNAME. The latter can also be used to disambiguate authors if they happen to have the same real name. "<>" is completely meaningless.