Re: git-svn rebase issues (the commiter gets changed)

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org> wrote:
> When using git-svn rebase (I'm not sure if this happens with a regular
> rebase as well, I use use git-svn primarily at work), the following
> oddity happens:
> 
> kelvie@mudd (working) qt $ git-cat-file commit
> c27e6207c9078d4225288d55454d6577f0135c16
> tree 13d9ef9cc67f5e6381d7697e5794c0ab5f72c729
> parent b9eb187d3029c5f9a816cb8f5473d9b239952d53
> author kwong <kwong@e2d93294-a71b-0410-9dca-e2ea525a67c9> 1195596864 +0000
> committer cscrimgeour
> <cscrimgeour@e2d93294-a71b-0410-9dca-e2ea525a67c9> 1195691944 +0000

This is strange.  Does this commit end below? or did you truncate
the git-svn-id: line from this message?

> 
> Qt/FME Extensions: QFMEDialog/QFMEWizard -> Windows only, for now
> 
> This is also a reapplication of r39657, which got rolled back.
> 
> These have dependencies on QWinWidget (which is a part of the MFC/Qt Migration
> Solution), and thus, it does not build without it.
> <kw>
> kelvie@mudd (working) qt $ git-cat-file commit
> 7075991c67c6d409ec2315dfeef6f45dd328485b
> tree 13d9ef9cc67f5e6381d7697e5794c0ab5f72c729
> parent b9eb187d3029c5f9a816cb8f5473d9b239952d53
> author kwong <kwong@e2d93294-a71b-0410-9dca-e2ea525a67c9> 1195596864 +0000
> committer Kelvie Wong <Kelvie.Wong@safe.com> 1195747291 +0000

This commit hasn't made it into SVN, yet, right?  If so, then that's
alright.

> 
> Qt/FME Extensions: QFMEDialog/QFMEWizard -> Windows only, for now
> 
> This is also a reapplication of r39657, which got rolled back.
> 
> These have dependencies on QWinWidget (which is a part of the MFC/Qt Migration
> Solution), and thus, it does not build without it.
> <kw>
> 
> 
> These are both the exact same commit (the tree, parent, and author are
> equivalent).
> 
> Sometimes (not always), the committer in a commit changes to be the
> committer of the parent (svn) commit.  This only happens to the
> commits whose parent is the SVN commit.  In the above example,
> cscrimgeour is a SVN user, who obviously could not have changed my
> code; the proper commit is the one at the bottom.
> 
> Both of these are the first local commit that I have rebased onto SVN.

Did you get these commits by cherry-picking (or format-patch + am)
from another SVN branch?  Have these commits been made to SVN already?

`gitk --reflog --all' may reveal some answers or clarify
things for you (assuming you have reflogs enabled in .git/config).

Rebase (all forms of it) *does* rewrite committer info, but how you got
cscrimgeour in there is very strange to me.

-- 
Eric Wong