Re: Bug: "git svn clone" does not honor svn.authorsfile setting

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Nov 11, 2009, 04:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4AFA3D04.3050109@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091110130913.GR19475@poetic.cynic.net>

Curt Sampson wrote:

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> When using "git svn fetch" or "git svn clone", the --authors-file
> command line parameter does what it claims in the docs. Additionally,
> for "git svn fetch", an svn.authorsfile configuration parameter in
> ~/.gitconfig is used, if no command line argument is specified. However,
> svn.authorsfile is ignored by "git svn clone", though the documentation
> claims that clone "runs init and fetch."
>
> I have confirmed this bug is present in git versions 1.6.0.4 and 1.6.5.1.
>

Does moving the line:

command_oneline('config', 'svn.authorsfile', $_authors) if $_authors;

Immediately prior to the "fetch_all" line before it fix the problem? It looks strange for it to set it afterwards...

Sam