Re: git-svn and Author files question

From: Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger@nospam.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2006, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20060415092510.GA4539@nospam.com>
In-Reply-To: <m21wvzx5e6.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:34:57PM -0700, Seth Falcon wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using git to manually track changes to a project that uses
> svn as its primary SCM.
> 
> git-svn looks like it can help me streamline my workflow, but I'm
> getting stuck with the following:
> 
>     mkdir foo
>     cd foo
>     git-svn init $URL  <--- the svn URL
>     git-svn fetch
>     Author: dfcimm3 not defined in  file
> 
> :-(
> 
> Can someone point me to the file and the place that describes what I
> should put in it?  There are many committers to the svn project.  I'm
> hoping that I will not have to enumerate all of their names in some
> file.

I'm not familiar with git-svn, but the $GIT_DIR/svn-authors file used by git-svnimport.perl and http://www.wingding.demon.nl/git-svnconvert.rb contains lines like:

svn-author = Full Name <email@domain>

And yes, you've got to enumerate the names you want transformed. Another option is to give no authors, but then the SVN author names will be used (with email 'unknown' or something).

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