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6 repomapper - update and manipulate contributor maps
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9 repomapper [-i] [-h 'host'] 'contribmap' [ updatefiles ]
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12 Older, centralized version-control systems such as CVS and SVN carry a
13 repository on one host and identify users by their account names on
14 that host. Distributed version-control systems such as Git and
15 Mercurial identify users by a netwide-unique ID consisting of a
16 name-among-humans followed by an email address.
17 When moving a repository from a centralized to a distributed system,
19 therefore, one of the prerequisites is comopiling a contributor map
20 that associates each account name on the old system to a DVCS-style ID
21 on the new one. This tool automates parts of that process.
22 The main argument file must be a contributor map such as is read by the
24 "authors read" subcommand of reposurgeon(1). It may be a fresh or stub
25 map, produced by "authors write" before any human-name or email
26 information has been added to the repository. Or it may have
27 name-among-humans and email information filled in for some entries.
28 A stub map entry looks something like this:
30 foonly = foonly <foonly>
32 The same entry, fully filled in, might look something like this:
34 foonly = Fred Foonly <foonly@fubar.net>
36 The default behavior of the tool is to report all map entries, in
38 effect a sorting copy of the file.
39 With -i, it reports only entries that are not yet in DVCS form - that
41 is, either the fullname field on the right side of the equals sign is
42 identical to the account name on the left, or the email field contains
43 no @-sign, or both.
44 Additional argument files are mined for entries missing in the stub
46 map.
47 An argument file containing an equals sign ("=") in its first line, or
49 leading its first line with a hash sign ("#"), is interpreted as a
50 supplementary map file. Each contributor entry with a username not
51 matching any in the first contributor map is copied into the first map,
52 which is output.
53 An argument file containing multiple colons on the first line is
55 interpreted as a Unix password file. Only the username and the comment
56 (or 'gecos') field containing the user’s name-among-humans are used.
57 Other fields are ignored. For each entry in the contrib file, this
58 program looks for a username in the password file matching the name to
59 the left of the equal sign. If a match is found, the user’s
60 name-among-humans is extracted from the gecos field and replaces the
61 text between the "=" and the "<".
62 Thus, the stub line above and the '/etc/passwd' line
64 foonly:x:1000:1000:Fred Foonly,,,:/home/foonly:/bin/bash
66 will combine to produce this on output:
68 foonly = Fred Foonly <foonly>
70 Note that the email-address part (and, if present, the optional
72 trailing timezone field) are not normally modified when a password file
73 is processed.
74 However, if the -h option is given, the argument is taken to be a host
76 name which should be appended (after a @) to every email field that
77 does not already contain a @. The argument would typically be the
78 fully-qualified domain name of the repository host.
79 Thus, if the passwd file still contains an entry for every committer
81 (which might not be the case if inactive committer accounts were ever
82 removed), -p mode combined with an -h option can produce an entire,
83 valid contributor map.
84 If an argument file begins with "From " it is interpreted as a Unix
86 mailbox file - this mode is intended for mining a project’s email
87 archive. The headers are scanned for names. When a name with a user-id
88 part matching an incomplete entry is found, that email address is used
89 to fill in the entry. If there are multiple matches the last is kept.
90 Output from this tool is always a contribution map sorted by username.
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97 Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com. This tool is distributed with
98 reposurgeon; see the project <http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon>
99 page" .
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