(note, other half of the thread is on dev@svn only..) Eric S. Raymond wrote on Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:46:37 -0500: > Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@xxxxxxxx>: > > You might also seek community consensus to reserve an svn:foo name for > > the "original author" property --- perhaps svn:original-author --- so > > that reposurgeon and other git->svn tools can interoperate in the way > > they transfer the "original author" information. > > OK. But I like the idea of letting the users set their own author > content string better. Instead of another layer of kluges, why I don't see the kludge here --- git has a "author" != "committer" distinction, svn doesn't, so if you want to grow that distinction the most natural way is a new property. Storing additional information in svn:author is a separate issue. > > > Subversion has a concept of "flows"; that is, named segments of > > > history corresponding to files or directories that are created when > > > the path is added, cloned when the path is copied, and deleted when > > > the path is deleted. This information is not preserved in import > > > streams or the internal representation that reposurgeon uses. Thus, > > > after editing, the flow boundaries of a Subversion history may be > > > arbitrarily changed. > > > > > > This is me being obsessive about documenting the details. I think it > > > is doubtful that most Subversion users even know flows exist. > > > > I think you're saying that adds might turn into copies, and vice-versa. > > That is something users would notice --- it is certainly exposed in the > > UI --- even though node-id's are not exposed to clients. > > I'm saying nobody thinks of flows when they do branch copies. It's > not just that users don't see node IDs, it's that no part of most users' > mental model of how Subversion works resembles them. I'm still not sure what you have in mind. I note that 'svn log' and 'svn blame' cross both file copies and branch creation --- that's one effect of "'svn cp foo bar; svn ci' causes bar to be related to foo". > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- 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