From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: reposurgeon now writes Subversion repositories
Message-ID: <20121129135557.GB26607@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <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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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>