Andreas Heiduk <ashei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 19.03.2018 um 00:04 schrieb Eric Wong: > > Andreas Heiduk <ashei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The email address in --authors-file and --authors-prog can be empty but > >> git-svn translated it into a syntethic email address in the form > >> $USERNAME@$REPO_UUID. Now git-svn behaves like git-commit: If the email > >> is explicitly set to the empty string, the commit does not contain > >> an email address. > > > > What is missing is WHY "<>" is preferable to "<$USERNAME@$REPO_UUID>". > > > > $USERNAME is good anyways since projects/organizations tie their > > SVN usernames to email usernames via LDAP, making it easy to > > infer their email address from $USERNAME. The latter can also > > be used to disambiguate authors if they happen to have the same > > real name. > > That's still available and it's even still the default.
OK. > But: If the user of git-svn takes the burden of writing an authors > script or maintaining an authors file then he should have full control > over the result as long as git can handle the output reasonably. > Currently that's the case for git but not for git-svn. Fair enough. > jondoe <> > > just means: "There is intentionally no email address." For an > internal, ephemeral repository that can be OK. It has the advantage, > that no automatic system (Jira, Jenkins, ...) will try to send emails to > > jondoe <jondoe@6aafaa21e0fb4338a68ab372a049893d> OK, that's a good reason to allow "<>" and should be in the commit message. > Further steps: Eric Sunshine mentioned [1] that you might have concerns about > the change of behavior per se. For me the patch is not so much a new feature > but > a bugfix bringing git-svn in sync with git itself. Adding an option parameter > to enable the new behavior seems strange to me. But there might be other ways > to achieve the same effect: New options are not desirable, either, as they increase testing/maintenance overhead. So I'm inclined to take your patch with only an updated commit message... No rush, though; will wait another bit for others to comment and I expect to be preoccupied this week with other projects and weather problems on the forecast :<
