From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-svn docs: mention svn.addAuthorFrom and svn.useLogAuthor config options.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:02:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214323361-13136-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080624073707.GA6495@frsk.net>
At least one person got confused because they thought it was necessary to
provide these on the command line every time.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-svn.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 97bed54..e8200ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ COMMANDS
--use-log-author;;
When retrieving svn commits into git (as part of fetch, rebase, or
dcommit operations), look for the first From: or Signed-off-by: line
- in the log message and use that as the author string.
+ in the log message and use that as the author string. (To enable
+ this permanently, use git config svn.useLogAuthor)
--add-author-from;;
When committing to svn from git (as part of commit or dcommit
operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a
From: or Signed-off-by: line, append a From: line based on the
- git commit's author string. If you use this, then --use-log-author
- will retrieve a valid author string for all commits.
+ git commit's author string. If you use this, then if you enable
+ --use-log-author it will retrieve a valid author string for all
+ commits. (To enable this option permanently, use git config
+ svn.addAuthorFrom)
--username=<USER>;;
For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http,
https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other
--
1.5.6.56.g29b0d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-20 11:31 git svn --add-author-from implies --use-log-author Fredrik Skolmli
2008-06-20 13:31 ` Mircea Bardac
2008-06-23 20:12 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-23 21:22 ` Mircea Bardac
2008-06-23 21:31 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-24 7:37 ` Fredrik Skolmli
2008-06-24 16:02 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
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