At least one person got confused because they thought it was necessary to provide these on the command line every time. Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 97bed54..e8200ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ COMMANDS --use-log-author;; When retrieving svn commits into git (as part of fetch, rebase, or dcommit operations), look for the first From: or Signed-off-by: line - in the log message and use that as the author string. + in the log message and use that as the author string. (To enable + this permanently, use git config svn.useLogAuthor) --add-author-from;; When committing to svn from git (as part of commit or dcommit operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a From: or Signed-off-by: line, append a From: line based on the - git commit's author string. If you use this, then --use-log-author - will retrieve a valid author string for all commits. + git commit's author string. If you use this, then if you enable + --use-log-author it will retrieve a valid author string for all + commits. (To enable this option permanently, use git config + svn.addAuthorFrom) --username=<USER>;; For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other -- 1.5.6.56.g29b0d -- 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