From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mircea Bardac Subject: Re: git svn --add-author-from implies --use-log-author Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:22:58 +0100 Message-ID: <48601432.2090707@mircea.bardac.net> References: <20080620113147.GC27940@frsk.net> <485BB134.9080203@mircea.bardac.net> <32541b130806231312l679aba31ra3daac2bb634cf1b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avery Pennarun To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 23 23:24:15 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 1KAtW6-0001Qz-Bg for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:24:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754012AbYFWVXG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753283AbYFWVXF (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:23:05 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.229]:24022 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754012AbYFWVXC (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:23:02 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so7273392rvb.1 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.136.6 with SMTP id j6mr13386943rvd.231.1214256182048; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from macmac.local ( [89.155.32.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b39sm11363859rvf.8.2008.06.23.14.23.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <32541b130806231312l679aba31ra3daac2bb634cf1b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Avery Pennarun wrote: > You can set config options for these, however: > > git config svn.addAuthorFrom true > git config svn.useLogAuthor true > > (I actually use "git config --global" to set these on my system so > they apply to all my git-svn repositories.) Oh great. This is what I actually wanted. Makes a lot more sense to have them as (global) variables. My initial thought was that there are (somewhere) some variables being set for the repository by using --add-author-from and --use-log-author with "git svn clone ...". I find this quite intuitive (and maybe this should be default?). I can't see a reason for using these options once and not using them later, but it might just be me. >> P.S. I am very curious why using From and not Signed-off-by. I had the >> feeling that Signed-off-by is being used to also mark the path of a patch. >> Also, is there a centralized list of all the ways a patch can be "marked" > > Signed-off-by is a legal declaration. Please read the documentation > carefully before using it. > > From: is automatically added (when you enable the option and there's > no Signed-off-by or From already) and is just informational. I have found that Documentation/SubmittingPatches contains info on how to use "Signed-off-by:"/"Acked-by:"/a little bit of "From:" but, as far as I remember, others have been/are used. Are they all gathered somewhere, as recommendations? Many thanks. -- Mircea http://mircea.bardac.net