Re: Help using Git(-svn) for specific use case

["Pico Geyer" <picogeyer@gmail.com>]

Thanks guys for your replies and advice.

I'm going to be trying to configure such a setup tomorrow.
I'll probably have more questions :-)

Regards,
Pico Geyer

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:15:59PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59:
>> >
>> > I thought this was fixed in a more recent version of git-svn? Didn't
>> > it even work both ways?
>>
>> Kind of. You can't fake a different author when committing to svn.
>
> This is not exactly correct as you can fake author if you have the right
> to change the svn:author property (or what is its name?), but by default
> this is not allowed to anyone, and git-svn does not support this method
> anyway.
>
>> But
>> "--add-author-from" makes dcommit embed the author in the svn commit
>> message (if there's no from nor sob), and "--use-log-author" makes fetch
>> look for that info and use it.
>
> Yes, it works. And it is very useful especially you are going eventually
> convert your SVN repository in Git (so all authorship information will
> be retain). Probably, I should have mentioned this possibility.
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
>