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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 6695ab3b4b..98d9881d7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -137,17 +137,19 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. -A <author-conv-file>:: CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file - in this format + maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and + optional timezone: + --------- exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> - spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> + spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> America/Chicago --------- + 'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly -all along. +all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will +have the corresponding offset applied. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same |