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Re: git-svn authors file and SVN users with ‘=’ in the username

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 28, 2014, 20:07 UTC
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<20140728200744.GA18098@peff.net>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:33:23AM +0000, David Braden wrote:
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> I’m creating a git clone of a svn repository and am trying to set up
> an authors file to map between the svn users and our git usernames.
> The svn repository uses the full subject line of a ssl certificate for
> the user id and so it contains ‘=’ which causes the authors file to be
> parsed incorrectly as it splits on the first equals.
> [...]
> How can I work around this limitation?

I have not tried it, but I suspect --authors-prog might work, as it passes the name as an argument to the program.

-Peff
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