posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode Python 3 already does this, so skip it there. Consider the program: #include <stdio.h> int main() { FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w"); fprintf(f, "narf\n"); fclose(f); f = fopen("narf", "a"); printf("%ld\n", ftell(f)); fprintf(f, "troz\n"); printf("%ld\n", ftell(f)); return 0; } on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints 5 10 but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints 0 10 By my reading of https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html this is technically correct, specifically: > Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the > mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be > forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening > calls to fseek(). in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable, but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > convert=
  > EOF

Prepare orig repo

  $ hg init orig
  $ cd orig
  $ echo foo > foo
  $ HGUSER='user name' hg ci -qAm 'foo'
  $ cd ..

Explicit --authors

  $ cat > authormap.txt <<EOF
  > user name = Long User Name
  > 
  > # comment
  > this line is ignored
  > EOF
  $ hg convert --authors authormap.txt orig new
  initializing destination new repository
  ignoring bad line in author map file authormap.txt: this line is ignored
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  0 foo
  writing author map file $TESTTMP/new/.hg/authormap
  $ cat new/.hg/authormap
  user name=Long User Name
  $ hg -Rnew log
  changeset:   0:d89716e88087
  tag:         tip
  user:        Long User Name
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     foo
  
  $ rm -rf new

Implicit .hg/authormap

  $ hg init new
  $ mv authormap.txt new/.hg/authormap
  $ hg convert orig new
  ignoring bad line in author map file $TESTTMP/new/.hg/authormap: this line is ignored
  scanning source...
  sorting...
  converting...
  0 foo
  $ hg -Rnew log
  changeset:   0:d89716e88087
  tag:         tip
  user:        Long User Name
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     foo