On 1 March 2016 at 19:15, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:49 AM, <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Map a P4 user to a specific name and email address in Git with the >> "git-p4.mapUser" config. The config value must be a string adhering >> to the format "p4user = First Lastname <em...@address.com>". >> >> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> >> --- >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt >> +git-p4.mapUser:: >> + Map a P4 user to a name and email address in Git. Use a string >> + with the following format to create a mapping: >> ++ >> +------------- >> +git config --add git-p4.mapUser "p4user = First Last <m...@address.com>" >> +------------- >> ++ >> +A mapping will override any user information from P4. Mappings for >> +multiple P4 user can be defined. > > Sorry for not paying closer attention the first time, but this needs > to be repeated for each P4 user you want to map, right? One can > imagine this quickly becoming painful if you have a lot of users to > map. Have you considered modeling this after git-svn where you can set > an "authors" file (and name the corresponding option --authors-file)?
For most authors it should just use the existing Perforce user information. This is (I assume) just for the occasional exception where Perforce has the wrong email address. Luke -- 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
