Re: git-svn and Author files question

Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:

There were some embarassing bugs between the git-svn in rc1 and rc2.
Current versions should work.  Rutger was right about the file format,
same as the other importers.

Thanks for the explanation (and thanks to Rutger as well for the
reply!).

I managed to get git-svn fetch to work by specifying an author file
with -A.

I'm a bit confused about why I have to do this.  Is there a way around
this?  Or perhaps a way to force a bogus email address based on svn
user name?

[ok, maybe I'm less confused than I'm letting on: the email
requirement is, I think, because that's what suits the main git
"customers".  If I was using git for a project's primary SCM, I would
have no problem with this.  In fact, we started using email addresses
as user names in svn a long time ago.  

But it seems to me that (1) using git to track a project that uses a
less featureful SCM is way cool, and (2) having to manually muck with
an authors file is kinda uncool.]

Sorry about so long to reply to questions this week, left hand/wrist is
wrecked.

Hope it heals quickly!


Thanks for listening and again for the help,

+ seth