sh...@keba.be wrote on Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:44 -0500:
> 2013/1/12 Pete Wyckoff <p...@padd.com>:
> > sh...@keba.be wrote on Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:38 -0500:
> >> I'm in a situation where I don't have P4 admin rights to use the
> >> --preserve-user option of git-p4. However, I would like to keep user
> >> information in the associated Git branch.
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to add an option for this?
> >
> > The --preserve-user option is used to submit somebody else's work
> > from git to p4. It does "p4 change -f" to edit the author of the
> > change after it has been submitted to p4. P4 requires admin
> > privileges to do that.
> >
> > Changes that are imported _from_ p4 to git do have the correct
> > author information.
> >
> > Can you explain a bit more what you're looking for?
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear enough. When "git p4 submit" submits changes from
> Git to P4, it also edits the Git history and replaces the Git commits'
> authors by the information from the Perforce account submitting the
> changes. The advantage is that both the P4 and Git repositories share
> the same author information, but in my case I would like to keep in
> the Git repository the original authors (because the P4 account I'm
> using to submit to P4 is shared by all Git users).
Ah, I see what you're looking for now. It's certainly possible
to keep a mapping in the git side to remember who really wrote
each change that went into p4, but there's nothing set up to do
that now. And it would be a fair amount of work, with many
little details.
You could put the true name in the commit message, like
we do signed-off-by messages: "Author: Real Coder <r...@my.com>".
That would keep the proper attribution, but not work with "git
log --author", e.g.; you'd have to use "--grep='Real Coder'"
instead.
-- Pete
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