From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:55:11 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters
Message-ID: <18558.35423.933860.915622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <487E7525.7000708@gmx.de>

Torsten Paul writes:

> 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.