From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Help using Git(-svn) for specific use case Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:15:59 +0200 Message-ID: <48CED08F.5040602@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <37fcd2780809151255q278b1786ub4caec9022d7b082@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Potapov , Pico Geyer , git@vger.kernel.org To: sverre@rabbelier.nl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 15 23:17:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KfLRk-00044W-KE for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:17:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755765AbYIOVQI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755973AbYIOVQH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:07 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:59594 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754933AbYIOVQG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:06 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206BD1632CC; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:04 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: hdDr/+VvpvJLa21IKrbbVEl3fyLgbb8SnlU/PfdH5iV9 1221513363 Received: from [139.174.44.12] (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA7C59C5B; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:16:02 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080707) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 21:55, Dmitry Potapov wrote: >> [...] Another problem with >> this approach is that the author is not preserved. In SVN, all commits will >> look like all changes are done by the person who run "git svn dcommit". > > I thought this was fixed in a more recent version of git-svn? Didn't > it even work both ways? Kind of. You can't fake a different author when committing to svn. But "--add-author-from" makes dcommit embed the author in the svn commit message (if there's no from nor sob), and "--use-log-author" makes fetch look for that info and use it. Michael