[issue489] convert-repo does not handle an empty author field in git

[Volker Kleinfeld]

New submission from Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>:

In case git has an empty author field, convert-repo uses the converters email
address as authors name in the generated hg repo. See:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=af25e94d4dcfb9608846242fabdd4e6014e5c9f0
http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/rev/36354f67c161

Not sure if mercurial can handle an empty author field at all, but perhaps we 
could just use a default string such as "MISSING", so conversions performed by
different users yield the same results.

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priority: bug
status: unread
title: convert-repo does not handle an empty author field in git

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