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

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Sep 15, 2008, 21:15 UTC
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Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59:
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 21:55, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...] Another problem with
>> this approach is that the author is not preserved. In SVN, all commits will
>> look like all changes are done by the person who run "git svn dcommit".
> 
> 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. 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.

Michael
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  1. Pico GeyerSep 15, 2008
  2. Michael J GruberSep 15, 2008
  3. Dmitry PotapovSep 15, 2008
  4. Sverre RabbelierSep 15, 2008
  5. Michael J GruberSep 15, 2008
  6. Dmitry PotapovSep 15, 2008
  7. Pico GeyerSep 15, 2008
  8. Pico GeyerSep 17, 2008
  9. Dmitry PotapovSep 18, 2008

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