# --username wrong or ignored for git-svn

1 messages from 2008-07-15 to 2008-07-15. Participants: Stephen Sinclair.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14467

## Stephen Sinclair, 2008-07-15 15:37

Subject: --username wrong or ignored for git-svn
Message-ID: <9b3e2dc20807150837j56e6baf8j6dc03c7a8352ccf3@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9b3e2dc20807150837j56e6baf8j6dc03c7a8352ccf3%40mail.gmail.com

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Hello,

Just now I attempted to commit some changes that a coworker had made
to our subversion repository using git-svn.  Since it was his work, we
attempted to commit it using his username, though it was done in a git
repository that I'd previously used with my username.  So I did:

git-svn dcommit --username <name>

But it ignored --username and the commit is now attributed to me.
Is it because I'd previously done dcommit in my own username?
There was no warning that it wouldn't do what I expected.

Admittedly it's was a weird thing to have him make a change in my
local repository but we didn't think it would be a problem if we
carefully used --username.

thanks,
Steve

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