The cvs programs do not default to "anonymous" as the user name, but use the currently logged in user. This patch more closely matches the cvs behavior. Signed-off-by: Gordon Hopper <g.hopper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-cvsimport.perl | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl index e4bc2b5..efa6a0c 100755 --- a/git-cvsimport.perl +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ sub conn { } } - $user="anonymous" unless defined $user; + # if username is not explicit in CVSROOT, then use current user, as cvs would + $user=(getlogin() || $ENV{'LOGNAME'} || $ENV{'USER'} || "anonymous") unless $user; my $rr2 = "-"; unless ($port) { $rr2 = ":pserver:$user\@$serv:$repo"; -- 1.5.3.5 - 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