I came across the following error message
Author: (no author) not defined in authors file |
when I tried to import an SVN repository (Open Yahtzee‘s) to Git using git svn
and I specified an authors file (using -A
). Indeed, the first commit to the svn (which was done using cvs2svn) had no username for the commiter. Apperantly the workaround is to add the following line to your author file.
(no author) = no_author <no_author@no_author> |
I tried also doing the same without an email address, but it just didn’t work. It seems Git requires that all authors have an email address.