From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Pico Geyer" Subject: Re: Help using Git(-svn) for specific use case Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:53:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <37fcd2780809151255q278b1786ub4caec9022d7b082@mail.gmail.com> <48CED08F.5040602@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20080915214740.GI28210@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 16 00:54:19 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 1KfMxT-0006BX-JT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:54:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753086AbYIOWxI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:53:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755379AbYIOWxG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:53:06 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.224]:28225 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753086AbYIOWxF (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:53:05 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so2367632rvb.1 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:53:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=4kDD2U0mWMGZxEQjVDkfyeJi5MC9G6UAtXsATEdGQdQ=; b=ggK2TjyB4pCfQOxvRkzBJfY35uIZSoUyC2GHTob8Cpj2GIYTG+i2MA/1dJ2p3P29uM ApFEukqHVx9uFGI1flkHJC7iz67ZsV3hgxbfU+HphqcXI1foCTfSxWMGzKej5h7b4ee5 9I7PLmi2MFz/Im/FoBqJVZ1RI0/wLDD5VbySY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Dlsyim72MmV26O0BHw8IWZM+Nj7RpZncMv0iLNmDZmPXyOZ3VjctbQDY1k6o8C7zod BXtsw5eeIVF1V5XoNZ0ZxgfobFw3Ec5SZb9lufoRXSF463UH4nvhZmi3d7sj9JBg7x5r wzVtt9Sg6jb05FF/8xHWb6Yy0iEViLL+Kzr70= Received: by 10.140.144.6 with SMTP id r6mr5171646rvd.293.1221519185053; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.193.16 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:53:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080915214740.GI28210@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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 >