Steinar Bang wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 22:55:09 +0100: > >>>>> "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com>: > > > On the other hand, when you *start* in gitspace, mapping back down to > > the set of abstractions svn can handle is really lossy. You have to > > throw away the domains on committer names, all the author fields, real > > (annotated) tags, and branch merges. > > Couldn't you just store this information as custom properties? Even > though svn isn't able to use it, at least the information would be > preserved...? >
Re "throw away the domains": svn:author properties be set to any byte-string which is NUL-terminated UTF-8 that doesn't contain CR (0x0D).
