There’s a very active discussion over at Make Core surrounding a proposal from Mark Jaquith to create a proper Git mirror. The issue? Forgetting to use the appropriate authors.txt file.

So what is the solution?

Proposed: That we re-run the git-svn import with a proper authors.txt file.

• Upsides – We’ll have a proper Git mirror with good and consistent author data, that we can, if desired, use for a future migration to Git. Commits will be properly attributed in GitHub.
• Downsides – This will break Git history. If you have a Git checkout of WordPress, either standalone or in a submodule, that’ll mean that you’ll have to rebase your master branch off of origin (or even better, blow the whole thing away and re-clone).

Comments are closed here – instead go over to the boards and give your opinion.