On 02.01.2012 09:34, Mark Mielke wrote:
On 01/02/2012 02:52 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012, Mark Mielke wrote:
Another idea is to change the revprop's value in the pre-commit or
post-commit hook: [...]
This is what we've been doing for about two years. It has the
consequence that tools don't automatically match unique identifier
to commit as they no longer match.
If your third party tools can't extract the unique ID from svn:author
= "Display Name <uniqueid@domain>" then perhaps the problem lies at
least as much in your third party tools as in subversion.
I wonder if you thought this through before posting. :-)
Hi Mark,
I only loosely followed this thread but I still want
to throw my 2 cents in here.
It seems that you are looking for a formal way
(i.e. accessible to tools) to identify the "author"
of a change and you listed some problems that
you are facing with the current state of things.
To me, it seems that there actually *is* plenty room
for improvement and simply nobody really brought
the topic up until now.
If you are working towards a proposal (problem
description + proposed solution), make sure you
start your analysis at the very basic. Such as:
* What is an author?
* How do concepts like "account", "person",
"role", "group" relate to that notion?
* What aspects of the above can be provided to /
handled by Subversion in a portable way?
* What are typical use-cases and do they match
with the definitions you use?
svn:author => unique identifier
That seems to be the hardest to define and may
be difficult to provide. Identifies the person?
PGP key ID?
svn:author-name => Mark Mielke
That would denote the "person". How would
duplicates and name changes be handled?
svn:author-email => m...@mark.mielke.cc
That looks close to the "account" aspect.
-- Stefan^2.
