CVS username is generated from local part email address.
We take the whole local part but restrict the character set to the
Portable Filename Character Set, which is used for Unix login names
according to Single Unix Specification v3.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Emmes <fabian.emmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lars Noschinski <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
git-cvsserver.perl | 12 +++++++++---
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index cbcaeb4..fef7faf 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -2533,12 +2533,18 @@ sub open_blob_or_die
return $fh;
}
-# Generate a CVS author name from Git author information, by taking
-# the first eight characters of the user part of the email address.
+# Generate a CVS author name from Git author information, by taking the local
+# part of the email address and replacing characters not in the Portable
+# Filename Character Set (see IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, 3.276) by underscores. CVS
+# Login names are Unix login names, which should be restricted to this
+# character set.
sub cvs_author
{
my $author_line = shift;
- (my $author) = $author_line =~ /<([^>@]{1,8})/;
+ (my $author) = $author_line =~ /<([^@>]*)/;
+
+ $author =~ s/[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.]/_/g;
+ $author =~ s/^-/_/;
$author;
}
--
1.6.1.rc2.20.gde0d
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