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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-01-16 00:23:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-01-16 00:23:23 -0800 |
| commit | 02d6fa5ce12d061b1c86f1b76d7bdac8c57e6f0c (patch) | |
| tree | 970c67d81dde3af013e78e760c3e8c348426910c /git-cvsimport.txt | |
| parent | 38064d53dc73697ccaf6b40a499ac535621354c7 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-02d6fa5ce12d061b1c86f1b76d7bdac8c57e6f0c.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.1.2-g4230
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diff --git a/git-cvsimport.txt b/git-cvsimport.txt index 01ca7ef96..dfe86ceea 100644 --- a/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -89,6 +89,26 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. -s <subst>:: Substitute the character "/" in branch names with <subst> +-A <author-conv-file>:: + CVS by default uses the unix username when writing its + commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file + in this format + + exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> + spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> + + git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had + their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly + all along. + + 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. + + 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. + OUTPUT ------ If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. |