From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: reposurgeon now writes Subversion repositories Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:55:57 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121129135557.GB26607@thyrsus.com> References: <20121129055946.2D7B84065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <20121129075829.GE3424@lp-shahaf.local> <20121129114637.GB9264@thyrsus.com> <20121129134203.GJ3424@lp-shahaf.local> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@subversion.apache.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Shahaf X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 29 14:56:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Te4b9-0001kf-AR for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:56:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754127Ab2K2Nz7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:55:59 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:53218 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753039Ab2K2Nz7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:55:59 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 578ED4065F; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:55:57 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121129134203.GJ3424@lp-shahaf.local> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniel Shahaf : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond