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    The Git author is constructed from the page information, including some
    post-processing to attempt to improve the usefulness of anonymous (IP
    address logged) edits.

    The committer and commit timestamp are left to be picked up from the
    environment. This means that Git commitids will not be reproducible
    between different runs of this code on the same page revisions.

  Hostname lookup
    When users do not log in, we get their IP address. When this is a web
    proxy, we learn nothing; but in a company it is often a one-user desktop
    machine.

    We do a reverse lookup in the DNS (IPv4) to get a hostname. Results are
    cached during the run and errors are written out as warnings.

    Beware that looking up historically-recorded IP addresses against the
    current DNS is likely to generate surprises.

  Hostname to user lookup
    You may safely ignore this part of the code.

lib/App/MediaWiki2Git.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

       '--date' => $props->{timestamp});

    $self->page_lastrev($pagename, $props->{revid});
}


=head2 Hostname lookup

When users do not log in, we get their IP address.  When this is a web
proxy, we learn nothing; but in a company it is often a one-user
desktop machine.

We do a reverse lookup in the DNS (IPv4) to get a hostname.  Results
are cached during the run and errors are written out as warnings.

Beware that looking up historically-recorded IP addresses against the
current DNS is likely to generate surprises.

=head2 Hostname to user lookup

You may safely ignore this part of the code.