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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@elego.de>
Cc: dev@subversion.apache.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reposurgeon now writes Subversion repositories
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:55:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121129135557.GB26607@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121129134203.GJ3424@lp-shahaf.local>

Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@elego.de>:
> I don't see the kludge here --- git has a "author" != "committer"
> distinction, svn doesn't, so if you want to grow that distinction the
> most natural way is a new property.  Storing additional information in
> svn:author is a separate issue.

See my advocacy to Branko of going to Internet-scoped IDs. The kludge
would be maintaining the local and Internet-scoped identifications 
as different properties and having to decide which one to key on
ad-hoc.  Nothing to do with the author/committer distinction. 
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29  5:59 reposurgeon now writes Subversion repositories Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-29  7:58 ` Daniel Shahaf
2012-11-29 10:31   ` Branko Čibej
2012-11-29 11:46   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-29 13:42     ` Daniel Shahaf
2012-11-29 13:55       ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2012-11-29 13:43     ` AW: " Markus Schaber

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