From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-p4: warn if git authorship won't be retained
Message-ID: <7vei46gm8v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1305055653-5133-2-git-send-email-luke@diamand.org>

Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> writes:

> If the git commits you are submitting contain changes made by
> other people, the authorship will not be retained. Change git-p4
> to warn of this and to note that --preserve-user can be used
> to solve the problem (if you have suitable permissions).
> The warning can be disabled.
>
> Add a test case and update documentation.
>
> Requested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Helped-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>

Heh, I didn't really "request" it; I am not a git-p4 user and am in no
position to judge if such a feature is useful.  If you felt it is a good
thing to do, please take full the credit (no need to resend; I am not
complaining).

Thanks.