Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sean <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 2. It appears that author/committer require an email address. How > >> important is a valid email address here? > > > > It's not necessary for the operation of Git itself; it's up to you to > > decide how important the information is to your project. You should > > be able to set an empty email address for author or committer in > > git fast-import as "name <>". > > Don't do this; git-cvsimport and git-svn uses "name <name>" > which is a saner compromise. This way, you can add .mailmap to > help later "git shortlog" to map using "<name>" part to more > human friendly name. Mapping at conversion time would also be > good and git-cvsimport knows about it (I do not know about > git-svn). git-svn can do this, too. I don't use it myself, but I remember the file format is the same as the one git-svnimport and git-cvsimport use. -- Eric Wong - 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
