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Re: reposurgeon now writes Subversion repositories

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 29, 2012, 13:55 UTC
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<20121129135557.GB26607@thyrsus.com>
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<20121129134203.GJ3424@lp-shahaf.local>
Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@elego.de>:
> I don't see the kludge here --- git has a "author" != "committer"
> distinction, svn doesn't, so if you want to grow that distinction the
> most natural way is a new property.  Storing additional information in
> svn:author is a separate issue.

See my advocacy to Branko of going to Internet-scoped IDs. The kludge would be maintaining the local and Internet-scoped identifications as different properties and having to decide which one to key on ad-hoc. Nothing to do with the author/committer distinction. 

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