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From: "Richard Quirk" <richard.quirk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-svn: Add --add-author-from option.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:11:56 +0200
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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.