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From: Adrian Wilkins <adrian.wilkins@...>
To: <git@...>
Subject: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in author names.
Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 - 10:28 am

Recently converted a large (11,000+ revisions) repository.

We authenticate against the NT domain controller, so all our revision
authors are of the form "domain\user". (You can switch off mod_sspi
reporting the domain part, but I didn't know about this at the time,
so it continues for historical reasons.)

git-svn treats the literal backslashes in the author names as escapes.
This leads to authors like

domainkevin
domain\
ichard

I know, I should have read the manual and used my "authors" file. Bah.

I'm sure that part of the revision hash in git includes the author
name... so I guess I'm looking at another multi-day conversion. :-(

Can I suggest that you make the authors file compulsory by default as well?
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BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in author n..., Adrian Wilkins, (Mon Nov 12, 10:28 am)
Re: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in auth..., Eric Wong, (Sat Nov 17, 4:43 pm)
Re: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in auth..., Andreas Ericsson, (Sat Nov 17, 7:17 pm)
BUG in gitk (was: Re: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal b..., Benoit Sigoure, (Sat Nov 17, 4:18 pm)