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@@ -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