Re: svn commit: rev 7048 - trunk/tools/cvs2svn

Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > Author: blair
> > Date: Thu Sep 11 16:57:54 2003
> > New Revision: 7048
> >
> > Modified:
> > trunk/tools/cvs2svn/cvs2svn.1
> > trunk/tools/cvs2svn/cvs2svn.py
> > Log:
> > Add a --username command line option to cvs2svn.py to change the
> > default username of 'unknown', which is used when cvs2svn.py creates a
> > branch or tag.
>
> > + print ' --username=NAME default name when CVS repos has no name
>
> This change seems liable to cause confusion to people learning about
> cvs2svn - certainly, the usage text above is rather unclear.

Feel free to change the doc test.

> Under what circumstances would this option be useful?
>
> Max.

When you have a CVS repository that's never sent out commit emails
and you want to load the repos into SVN and send out all commits to
mailman. Mailman requires a valid email address to have email sent
from.

In my case, I'm using --username=blair@orcaware.com. Since I'm the
one running cvs2svn.py, it makes sense that those branch and tags
are associated with me.

Another possibility is to make the default username the same
as the username of the person running cvs2svn.py.

Blair

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