Re: BUG: git-svn does not escape literal backslashes in author names.

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Nov 17, 2007, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20071117204348.GA16333@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <1213a9470711120628l4ccab632n17635295ec897a2@mail.gmail.com>

Adrian Wilkins <adrian.wilkins@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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. :-(

git-filter-branch should be able to take care of it. If you find an invocation that's useful to others, it'd be great to post it on the list as well :)

> Can I suggest that you make the authors file compulsory by default as well?

Not going to happen. I personally _hate_ having to track down author information and make an authors file, and I suspect many others feel the same. I've never used this feature in git-svn on any real repository.

-- 
Eric Wong