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Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Jul 16, 2008, 23:55 UTC
Message-ID
<18558.35423.933860.915622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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<487E7525.7000708@gmx.de>
Torsten Paul writes:
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> I'm tracking a subversion repository which is running on
> a windows machine with git-svn. The user names look like
> DOMAIN\username and that's giving a strange display in
> gitk as the backslash sequence is evaluated.
> 
> I'm not sure if I found the correct place to prevent this,
> so I'd like to ask if the following change would be the
> correct thing to prepare as patch...

Something like that, I think, but to be sure I'd like to see the actual author and committer lines that are causing the problem. Could you send me the output of "git cat-file commit" on one of the problematic commits?

Thanks, Paul.

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