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Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add --add-author-from option.

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RQRichard Quirk <richard.quirk@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2008, 19:11 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>  For example, CVS honors LOGNAME to allow you to "lie" who the author of a
>  change was, which is the behaviour inherited from RCS.  I have to wonder
>  if SVN has a similar mechanism to tell it "Excuse me, but I am just a
>  secretary recording changes for my boss."

The author is stored as a property of the commit, so you can set alter it with something like `svn propset --revprop -r N svn:author NAME REPO_URL` providing you have server-side revision property changes enabled.

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Message 8 of 12 in “git-svn: add documentation for --use-log-author option.”
  1. 1/3 git-svn: add documentation for --use-log-author option.apenwarr@gmail.com, Apr 16, 2008
  2. 2/3 git-svn: Add --add-author-from option.apenwarr@gmail.com, Apr 16, 2008
  3. 3/3 git-svn: add documentation for --add-author-from option.apenwarr@gmail.com, Apr 16, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2008
  5. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2008
  7. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  8. Richard QuirkApr 16, 2008
  9. Dmitry PotapovApr 16, 2008
  10. Sam VilainApr 16, 2008
  11. Avery PennarunApr 16, 2008
  12. Eric WongApr 17, 2008

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