On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 01:36:10AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Branko ??ibej <br...@wandisco.com>: > > Why do forges not do that? I don't know, but it's definitely not because > > Subversion doesn't give them fifteen ways of manipulating the svn:author > > property. > > I don't know either. > > I do know that protests to me of the general form "if they'd just use > poorly-documented alchemical formula XYZ everything would be fine" aren't > going > to solve your problem. In no case have I ever seen, etc. The guy in the > trenches is telling you that your fifteen ways aren't producing any > result he can distinguish from "svn:author is always a Unix user ID". > > You can throw up your hands and say "the forges aren't doing it right", sure.
The C code --- on both client and server --- _does not know_ what the email addresses are; either the user or the admin would need to enable that feature explicitly. That's a social problem, not a technical one.
