From: Richard Quirk <richard.quirk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:11:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add --add-author-from option.
Message-ID: <cac9e4380804161211h1f49dc0bg810cfa9c0d47af5d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3aplsl3p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.