Re: git svn --use-log-author misbehavior?

[Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:51:39AM +0100, Mircea Bardac wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to the documentation, this parameter (--use-log-author) should 
>  use the author from the From/Signed-off-by line. Unfortunately, I 
> found this to be working only on the first git svn clone. Later rebasing 
> made the commits use the old username@uuid format.
> 
> I am assuming the option is not being preserved in the Git repository 
> metadata and it is only used on cloning/init. Is this the intended 
> behavior?

Doesn't look like it. When you're using --add-author-from on dcommit, git-svn
doesn't seem to know that it should look after "From:" in the commit, thus
not setting the author correctly. The following oneliner should solve the
case. Please let me know if it works as well for you as it did for me.
 
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>
---
 git-svn.perl |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index a54979d..8f77b91 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -432,6 +432,9 @@ sub cmd_dcommit {
 		     "without --no-rebase may be required."
 	}
 	while (1) {
+		if ($Git::SVN::_add_author_from) {
+			$Git::SVN::_use_log_author = 1;
+		}
 		my $d = shift @$linear_refs or last;
 		unless (defined $last_rev) {
 			(undef, $last_rev, undef) = cmt_metadata("$d~1");
-- 
1.5.6.6.gd3e97

-- 
Regards,
Fredrik Skolmli