From: Adrian Wilkins Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:28:24 GMT Subject: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in author names. Message-ID: <1213a9470711120628l4ccab632n17635295ec897a2@mail.gmail.com> 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?