override svn:author when pushing to local repository

[Alex Smith]

I pushed my bzr branch to an SVN repo with bzr svn-push, and all the commits in SVN had the author 'alex' (which is my local username), rather than the author of the revision in the bzr branch. For example, there are 2 committers in the bzr branch and they all show as 'alex' in the svn repo. Is this intended behaviour?

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Am Sonntag, den 16.09.2007, 21:05 +0000 schrieb Alex Smith:
> I pushed my bzr branch to an SVN repo with bzr svn-push, and all the
> commits in SVN had the author 'alex' (which is my local username),
> rather than the author of the revision in the bzr branch. For example,
> there are 2 committers in the bzr branch and they all show as 'alex' in
> the svn repo. Is this intended behaviour?
Yes. This is in fact a Subversion bug - it is not possible in Subversion
to commit revisions under a different username than the one that is
authenticated to the SVN repository.

bzr-svn does store this information in the Subversion repository - in a
bzr-svn specific property - so you can see it with 'bzr log' on the SVN
repository, but it is not visible in, for example, 'svn log'.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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[Alex Smith (aejsmith)]

Ah :/ That's a bit of a bummer - see, I'm using bzr-svn to mirror my repo to SVN for Ohloh, and that is resulting in incorrect developer statistics to show in Ohloh. Oh well, thanks anyway

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

  status invalid

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[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

On second thought, we may be able to work around this when the
repository is local. I will check if this is possible using the
python-subversion bindings.

Reopening for now.

  summary "override svn:author when pushing to local repository"
  status triaged
  importance low

Cheers,

Jelmer

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[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

the same is true for svn:date. could probably fix this after the fact