Re: [PATCH 0/6] Merge David's SVN exporter into git.git

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Jun 4, 2010, 13:31 UTC
Message-ID: <4C090025.6010905@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <1275657988-29765-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra venit, vidit, dixit 04.06.2010 15:26:

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> Hi,
> 
> This is another attempt to merge David's SVN exporter into
> git.git. What changed since last time: David implemented incremental
> dump support, and I fixed certain things for the merge, as suggested
> by Jonathan Nieder. Preparing patches for the list eats up a lot of my
> time, and if this batch is more-or-less okay, I'd like it to be merged
> atleast into `pu`: we can squash in minor fixes later. The exporter is
> functionally complete and validated against ~940k revisions of the ASF
> repository.
> 
> You can see the complete revision history in my `git-merge` branch of
> my fork of svn-dump-fast-export [1].
> 
> The issue of authorship has already been discussed, but what exactly I
> should do isn't very clear to me- in my opinion the author of all six
> patches should be hand-edited to:
> David Barr <david.barr@gmail.com>

Well, in that case you should rewrite the patches to have David in the author field (e.g. rebase -i and commit --amend --author=...). Git format-patch/send-email will insert an additional From header in the patch e-mail then. (Sorry if that was clear to you already. I see you have a different author in 2/6.)

Michael