Hi Joseph, On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:42:45PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > (SVN will remain > readonly, just as the old CVS repository remains available readonly).
> That the git-svn mirror is useful for many purposes for which people want > to use git also provides a clear argument against needing to do the final > conversion in a hurry; Right. But trying to correct the ancient history in the repo isn't useful *anyway*. One much bigger problem is that very often very unrelated things are committed at the same time, in big omnibus patches. Another much bigger problm is that when you are doing the kind of archeology where this matters, you need to have old the email archives anyway, which aren't available. > I think having author names and email addresses is a basic requirement of > any reasonable repository conversion Yes, and they should be the same as they were in the original repository. Segher
