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From: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help debugging git-svn
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:31:13 -0600
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz
<eantoranz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok.... I came up with another idea to avoid having to deal with the
> old svn history (I'm having no problems fetching/dcommitting with my
> current repo). I already have the branches I work with, the thing is
> that the revisions I fetched before I started using the svn authors
> file have nasty IDs instead of human names. I though that I could
> create a script to rewrite the whole history of the project adjusting
> the usernames to real names (I'll take care of the details, no problem
> there... just found out about filter-branch, could work for what I'm
> thinking of). My question would be in the direction of rebuilding
> git-svn metainfo once I'm done so that I can continue fetching from
> svn as if nothing had happened. I checked the documentation in
> git-scm.com but didn't find the details about it. Is there a
> straight-forward document that explains how the git-svn metadata files
> are built?
>
> Thanks in advance.

.rev_map files appear to be simple enough. I'll have fun with them a
little bit. Will let you know how it goes later (don't hold your
breath.... it might take a while).