- username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
-
- and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
- author and committer for Subversion commits made by
- "username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
- list, abort.
+------
++
+and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
+author and committer for Subversion commits made by
+"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
+list, abort.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+repository without -A.