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...ment of attribution) and only makes one mirror of > it superficially better. Adding --use-log-author to "git svn fetch" will have no effect unless the committer either adds --add-author-from to "git svn dcommit" or does a one-time setup: $ git config --global config svn.addAuthorFrom true You can continue to use "Patch by <name>" if neither you nor the author care. If correct attribution on the git mirror is important to *either* party, then the git mirror must be configured with --use-log-author. As a committer, correct attribution on the git mirror is impor...

Below is a copy of the email I sent to llvm-admin. If it is lost in the ether, can you reply on this thread? There's an LLD contributor looking to add an ARMv7 backend. It's a significant contribution so I'd like to land the patch under the correct author. Hi LLVM admins, I'd like to commit patches on behalf of others, but I'm not comfortable simply adding "Patch by

Erik> I am surprised noone has mentioned the one of the biggest Erik> advantages of Git which is proper author attribution for Erik> non-core and drive-by patch contributors. >From what I can make of the git-svn docs, that LLVM committers should be adding a "From: <email>" field to commit messages instead of "Patch by <name>". If the original author is