git-svn: Losing author in svn log after git svn dcommit

Question

I'm learning git-svn currently and it looks like SVN loses the author after I do git svn dcommit . When I look in the svn log, the commit is there but with no author.

I've read about this authors.txt file, and learnt how to tell git about it but my efforts didn't work.

My global .gitconfig file contains:

[svn]
    authorsfile = C:\\path\\to\\authors.txt

And my authors.txt file contains:

Joe = Joe Bloggs <joe.bloggs@example.com>

Answer 1

AFAIU authors file works when fetching data from svn to git, that is svn's Joe will become Joe Bloggs <joe.bloggs@example.com> . The feature won't work the other way around. All commits pushed back to svn via git svn dcommit will be identified by the committing svn user.