Mark Lodato <lodatom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Michael J Gruber > <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mark Lodato venit, vidit, dixit 08.05.2009 03:11: > > Maybe we want a config key also, just like for the authors file. > > Yes, this is a very good idea. I will figure out how to do this. It already works :) Command-line options taken by git svn have always been automatically converted to config keys. > > The feature itself looks useful for large user databases. For smaller > > ones one could just as well update the authors file before each fetch by > > dumping the whole db in there (or even conditionally on git svn fetch > > erroring out due to encountering an unknown name). > > Right. This feature will most likely be useful in corporate > environments. In my case, it is not possible to dump the entire user > database to a file, so this patch is the only solution. Another > possible use case is where SVN usernames are standardized, e.g. "jdoe" > -> "J Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>". Also, using --authors-prog solves the > problem of keeping the authors file up-to-date, if users are regularly > added or deleted. Thanks Mark. Your patch looks good and I'll apply the next one after the grammar fixes. I've actually thought about implementing this myself back when I (briefly) worked in a corporate environment, but never got around to it. Sorry for the late response and not following the mailing list more closely these days. -- Eric Wong -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html