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.
+---------
++
+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
------
-A <author_file>::
Read a file with lines on the form
++
+------
+ username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
- username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
-
- and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
- author and committer for Subversion commits made by
- "username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
- list, abort.
-
- For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
- each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
- file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
- repository without -A.
+------
++
+and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
+author and committer for Subversion commits made by
+"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
+list, abort.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+repository without -A.
-m::
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option