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In SVN, the author is being stored as an unversioned revision property, namely svn:author. Every time a Subversion user makes a commit, SVN creates a new revision and sets this revision svn:author property to be equal to that exact user's name, e.g. johndoe in this case:
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A /project
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A /project/branches
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A /project/tags
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A /project/trunk
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initial layout for the project
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Git, in turn, also stores author's name along with every commit, but this name differs from that in SVN: whereas SVN stores actual username, Git stores a name that's set by user.name Git directive, e.g., by global setting:
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