On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:25 PM, A Large Angry SCM <gitzi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/10/2012 01:43 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> So, the options are: >> >> a) Leave the name conversion to the export tools, and when they miss >> some weird corner case, like 'Author<email', let the user face the >> consequences, perhaps after an hour of the process. >> >> We know there are sources of data that don't have git-formatted author >> names, so we know every tool out there must do this checking. >> >> In addition to that, let the export tool decide what to do when one of >> these bad names appear, which in many cases probably means do nothing, >> so the user would not even see that such a bad name was there, which >> might not be what they want. >> >> b) Do the name conversion in fast-import itself, perhaps optionally, >> so if a tool missed some weird corner case, the user does not have to >> face the consequences. >> >> The tool writers don't have to worry about this, so we would not have >> tools out there doing a half-assed job of this. >> >> And what happens when such bad names end up being consistent: warning, >> a scaffold mapping of bad names, etc. >> >> >> One is bad for the users, and the tools writers, only disadvantages, >> the other is good for the users and the tools writers, only >> advantages. >> > > c) Do the name conversion, and whatever other cleanup and manipulations > you're interesting in, in a filter between the exporter and git-fast-import. Such a filter would probably be quite complicated, and would decrease performance. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
