From: "Richard Quirk" <richard.quirk@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
"Eric Wong" <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
"Sam Vilain" <sam@vilain.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@versabanq.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add --add-author-from option.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:11:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cac9e4380804161211h1f49dc0bg810cfa9c0d47af5d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3aplsl3p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> For example, CVS honors LOGNAME to allow you to "lie" who the author of a
> change was, which is the behaviour inherited from RCS. I have to wonder
> if SVN has a similar mechanism to tell it "Excuse me, but I am just a
> secretary recording changes for my boss."
The author is stored as a property of the commit, so you can set alter
it with something like `svn propset --revprop -r N svn:author NAME
REPO_URL` providing you have server-side revision property changes
enabled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 1:04 [PATCH 1/3] git-svn: add documentation for --use-log-author option apenwarr
2008-04-16 1:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add --add-author-from option apenwarr
2008-04-16 1:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] git-svn: add documentation for " apenwarr
2008-04-16 4:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add " Junio C Hamano
2008-04-16 16:46 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-16 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-16 18:45 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-16 19:11 ` Richard Quirk [this message]
2008-04-16 19:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-04-16 22:24 ` Sam Vilain
2008-04-16 22:34 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-17 4:36 ` Eric Wong
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