Patrick, I personally think it is better just to leave them un-mapped. On 7 August 2011 14:39, Patrick Earl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've discovered that (strangely?) github allows you to enter arbitrary > e-mail address to map, so I would propose that we do a "call for > existing accounts" but if people don't want to link to a particular > e-mail address, we just use: > > <svn-username>@svn.nhforge.org > > This allows them to later add that e-mail address in github and their > accounts get linked to those commits automatically. > > Any objections to the hostname? > > Patrick Earl > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Mauricio Scheffer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right now, on my github mirror all committers have names autogenerated by > > git-svn. For example: "patearl > > <patearl@d2eaab8a-a80d-0410-be94-99ecdb4ea5df>". > > Git filter-branch should be used to change all commits and map those > > autogenerated names to the actual github accounts (e.g. the email used > for > > https://github.com/patearl ), otherwise all commits are pretty much > > anonymous, detached from their actual owners. > > Here's a sample script that does this for a single user: > > http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html#changing_email_addresses_globally > > The filter-branch docs also has some examples about this: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html > > > > Cheers, > > Mauricio >
