Re: git-svn and Author files question

From: Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2006, 01:57 UTC
Message-ID: <m2ejzys2ns.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060415215850.GB20468@hand.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> There were some embarassing bugs between the git-svn in rc1 and rc2.
> Current versions should work.  Rutger was right about the file format,
> same as the other importers.

Thanks for the explanation (and thanks to Rutger as well for the reply!).

I managed to get git-svn fetch to work by specifying an author file with -A.

I'm a bit confused about why I have to do this. Is there a way around this? Or perhaps a way to force a bogus email address based on svn user name?

[ok, maybe I'm less confused than I'm letting on: the email requirement is, I think, because that's what suits the main git "customers". If I was using git for a project's primary SCM, I would have no problem with this. In fact, we started using email addresses as user names in svn a long time ago.

But it seems to me that (1) using git to track a project that uses a less featureful SCM is way cool, and (2) having to manually muck with an authors file is kinda uncool.]

> Sorry about so long to reply to questions this week, left hand/wrist is
> wrecked.

Hope it heals quickly!

Thanks for listening and again for the help,

+ seth