On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:50 AM Pierre Labastie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Problem is I do not know how to transfer the author name to the svn repo: I've
> tried with a "git svn" repo, but it does not transfer the author name! After
> this try (r4098), your name was not even mentioned in the commit message, and
> I felt very bad about that. Fortunately, I've been able to amend the message
> with svnadmin. But still you do not appear as the author.

Thanks, I appreciate that effort, but it really doesn't bother me.

> Next time, I'll use a regular svn repo, and copy the full git log message, so
> that at least your name appears...
>
> Well, maybe you could acquire (or you already have) commit rights to the
> linuxfromscratch repo? I do not think I can grant you those rights, but why
> not asking Bruce?
>
> You could then commit patches, and I would mail to alfs-discuss if I wanted to
> modify something, or modify them myself (for example for trivial typos, or
> mandatory fixes in the rare cases when something is broken), and same in the
> other direction of course!

I'll think about that. I honestly don't know how much time I am able
to spend on this, it really just started as a bit of poking around.

You mentioned you use git locally - what prevents you from moving the
source to a public git repo, like on Github or Gitlab and
collaborating there? That would seem to make things easier.

JH
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