Thanks guys for your replies and advice. I'm going to be trying to configure such a setup tomorrow. I'll probably have more questions :-) Regards, Pico Geyer On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:15:59PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: >> Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 15.09.2008 22:59: >> > >> > I thought this was fixed in a more recent version of git-svn? Didn't >> > it even work both ways? >> >> Kind of. You can't fake a different author when committing to svn. > > This is not exactly correct as you can fake author if you have the right > to change the svn:author property (or what is its name?), but by default > this is not allowed to anyone, and git-svn does not support this method > anyway. > >> But >> "--add-author-from" makes dcommit embed the author in the svn commit >> message (if there's no from nor sob), and "--use-log-author" makes fetch >> look for that info and use it. > > Yes, it works. And it is very useful especially you are going eventually > convert your SVN repository in Git (so all authorship information will > be retain). Probably, I should have mentioned this possibility. > > Thanks, > Dmitry > -- 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
