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;
}