From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:15:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Help using Git(-svn) for specific use case
Message-ID: <48CED08F.5040602@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0809151359i357987c5vb2544b1b5c99802f@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59:
> 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