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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-15 13:12:29 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-15 13:12:29 -0800
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@@ -798,16 +798,18 @@ the old cvs2git tool.</p></div>
<p>
CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its
commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
- in this format
+ maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and
+ optional timezone:
</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt> exon=Andreas Ericsson &lt;ae@op5.se&gt;
- spawn=Simon Pawn &lt;spawn@frog-pond.org&gt;</tt></pre>
+ spawn=Simon Pawn &lt;spawn@frog-pond.org&gt; America/Chicago</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p><em>git cvsimport</em> will make it appear as those authors had
their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-all along.</p></div>
+all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will
+have the corresponding offset applied.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For convenience, this data is saved to <tt>$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors</tt>
each time the <em>-A</em> option is provided and read from that same
file each time <em>git cvsimport</em> is run.</p></div>
@@ -928,7 +930,7 @@ parsecvs, <tt>http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs</tt>
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-Last updated 2011-11-15 13:45:02 PDT
+Last updated 2012-11-15 13:11:54 PDT
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