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Re: Suggestion: add option in git-p4 to preserve user in Git repository

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PWPete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2013, 22:56 UTC
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shish@keba.be wrote on Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:44 -0500:
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> 2013/1/12 Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>:
> > shish@keba.be wrote on Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:38 -0500:
> >> I'm in a situation where I don't have P4 admin rights to use the
> >> --preserve-user option of git-p4. However, I would like to keep user
> >> information in the associated Git branch.
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to add an option for this?
> >
> > The --preserve-user option is used to submit somebody else's work
> > from git to p4.  It does "p4 change -f" to edit the author of the
> > change after it has been submitted to p4.  P4 requires admin
> > privileges to do that.
> >
> > Changes that are imported _from_ p4 to git do have the correct
> > author information.
> >
> > Can you explain a bit more what you're looking for?
> 
> Sorry I wasn't clear enough. When "git p4 submit" submits changes from
> Git to P4, it also edits the Git history and replaces the Git commits'
> authors by the information from the Perforce account submitting the
> changes. The advantage is that both the P4 and Git repositories share
> the same author information, but in my case I would like to keep in
> the Git repository the original authors (because the P4 account I'm
> using to submit to P4 is shared by all Git users).

Ah, I see what you're looking for now. It's certainly possible to keep a mapping in the git side to remember who really wrote each change that went into p4, but there's nothing set up to do that now. And it would be a fair amount of work, with many little details.

You could put the true name in the commit message, like we do signed-off-by messages: "Author: Real Coder <rc@my.com>". That would keep the proper attribution, but not work with "git log --author", e.g.; you'd have to use "--grep='Real Coder'" instead.

		-- Pete
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  1. Olivier DelalleauJan 11, 2013
  2. Pete WyckoffJan 12, 2013
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  4. Pete WyckoffJan 12, 2013
  5. Olivier DelalleauJan 13, 2013
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