Re: Help using Git(-svn) for specific use case

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2008, 21:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20080915214740.GI28210@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <48CED08F.5040602@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:15:59PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59:
> > 
> > I thought this was fixed in a more recent version of git-svn? Didn't
> > it even work both ways?
> 
> Kind of. You can't fake a different author when committing to svn.

This is not exactly correct as you can fake author if you have the right to change the svn:author property (or what is its name?), but by default this is not allowed to anyone, and git-svn does not support this method anyway.

> But
> "--add-author-from" makes dcommit embed the author in the svn commit
> message (if there's no from nor sob), and "--use-log-author" makes fetch
> look for that info and use it.

Yes, it works. And it is very useful especially you are going eventually convert your SVN repository in Git (so all authorship information will be retain). Probably, I should have mentioned this possibility.

Thanks, Dmitry