git-cvsimport: Add -A <author-conv-file> option

[git.git] / Documentation / git-cvsimport.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 01ca7ef..dfe86ce 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -89,6 +89,26 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 -s <subst>::
        Substitute the character "/" in branch names with <subst>
 
+-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
+
+       exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
+       spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
+
+       git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
+       their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
+       all along.
+
+       For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
+       each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
+       file each time git-cvsimport is run.
+
+       It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
+       export changes back to CVS again later with
+       git-link[1]::git-cvsexportcommit.
+
 OUTPUT
 ------
 If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.