From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:08:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] svnimport add support for parsing From lines for author Message-ID: <7v7izrtdtw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060925110813.GA4419@shadowen.org> Andy Whitcroft writes: > svnimport: add support for parsing From: lines for author Please do _not_ repeat the summary line in the message body. It is on the Subject: already. > Now that we have support for parsing Signed-off-by: for author > information it makes sense to handle From: as well. I take that you are referring to Sasha's change in ae35b304; I asked for actual svn users for ACK/NACK but I did not hear any. Can I understand that you use svnimport for real projects and are happy with Sasha's change? --- that would be an ack that would help me sleep better ;-). > adds a new -F which will handle From: lines in the comments. It > may be used in combination with -S. This sort of makes sense but how common is this? I also wonder instead of piling up custom flags if it is better to let match-and-extract pattern be specified from the command line.