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Re: Problems with git-svn authors file

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Dec 12, 2006, 04:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20061212042558.GA31795@soma>
In-Reply-To
<20061210172604.GA18385@hermes.lan.home.vilz.de>
Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
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> hello,
> 
> i tried to use git-svn with author-files and got stuck with following
> error message:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/git-svn line
> 2952.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/bin/git-svn line 2953.
> Author:  not defined in .git/info/svn-authors file
> 512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 457
>         main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 328
>         main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 187
> Am i doing something wrong?
No, this is just a bug in git-svn.

After the following patch, you should be able to use -------------------------------------------- (no author) = real-name <email address> -------------------------------------------- in your authors file.

-- 
Eric Wong

From b40e14605809b0b1501002a333fbd680913f127f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:22:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: correctly handle "(no author)" when using an authors file

The low-level parts of the SVN library return NULL/undef for
author-less revisions, whereas "(no author)" is a (svn) client
convention.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
---
 git-svn.perl |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 1f8a3b0..17ebb77 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -2948,7 +2948,8 @@ sub libsvn_log_entry {
 	my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S) = ($date =~ /^(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)T
 					 (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d).\d+Z$/x)
 				or die "Unable to parse date: $date\n";
-	if (defined $_authors && ! defined $users{$author}) {
+	if (defined $author && length $author > 0 &&
+	    defined $_authors && ! defined $users{$author}) {
 		die "Author: $author not defined in $_authors file\n";
 	}
 	$msg = '' if ($rev == 0 && !defined $msg);
-- 
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  4. Eric WongDec 12, 2006

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