Is there any way of specifying a different author name on Google Code with git-svn?

Question

My Gmail/Google username is not a username I generally go by, and one I'd rather forget. I don't seem to be able to change my Google username, but I contribute to a Google Code project using git svn.

In Git, I can specify my name and e-mail address using my ~/.gitconfig file in the [user] section. Same with Mercurial and hgrc.

But the moment I push it up to Google, my name becomes my (rather arbitrary) Google username and my e-mail address becomes that followed by a long hash. Is there any way of telling Google Code and svn or git-svn to let me use my real name rather than my (arbitrary) Google username in the svn repostiory?

Answer 1

You can set the displayed address after the fact by manipulating the svn:author property on the revision (using "svn propset"). I don't know enough about git-svn to know if it has a way to set the author itself.

Or you can convince the project in question to switch to Mercurial ;-).