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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2006-01-16 00:23:23 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2006-01-16 00:23:23 -0800
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@@ -425,6 +425,39 @@ the old cvs2git tool.</p>
Substitute the character "/" in branch names with &lt;subst&gt;
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</dd>
+<dt>
+-A &lt;author-conv-file&gt;
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<p>
+ CVS by default uses the unix username when writing its
+ commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
+ in this format
+</p>
+<div class="literalblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>exon=Andreas Ericsson &lt;ae@op5.se&gt;
+spawn=Simon Pawn &lt;spawn@frog-pond.org&gt;</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<div class="literalblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
+their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
+all along.</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<div class="literalblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
+each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
+file each time git-cvsimport is run.</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+<div class="literalblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
+export changes back to CVS again later with
+git-link[1]::git-cvsexportcommit.</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+</dd>
</dl>
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<h2>OUTPUT</h2>
@@ -448,7 +481,7 @@ various participants of the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p>
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-Last updated 06-Jan-2006 17:12:15 PDT
+Last updated 16-Jan-2006 00:23:09 PDT
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