On 13 March 2016 at 17:41, Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 02 Mar 2016, at 10:25, Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> On 02 Mar 2016, at 06:06, Luke Diamand <l...@diamand.org> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> I agree this is an occasional exception. I use it for users that have been >> deleted on the Perforce server. >> >> @Eric: If a user wants to they could create a custom gitconfig and then use >> the config "include" mechanism to achieve a "authors" file kind of approach. >> > > Is the patch uninteresting for git-p4 as it handles only an occasional > exception or did the patch get lost in the noise? :-)
I thought it was useful; I hadn't realised that it was needed for deleted users. 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
