Re: git-svn and Author files question

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Apr 15, 2006, 21:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20060415215850.GB20468@hand.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <m21wvzx5e6.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>

Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com> 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 using git version 1.3.0.rc1.g40e9, and BTW, enjoying it very much.

There were some embarassing bugs between the git-svn in rc1 and rc2. Current versions should work. Rutger was right about the file format, same as the other importers.

Sorry about so long to reply to questions this week, left hand/wrist is wrecked.

@Pavel, Junio: I should have doc updates coming in hopefully in the next few days, unless anybody wants to help :)

-- 
Eric Wong