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>
next prev parent 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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