From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:07:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn authors file and SVN users with ‘=’ in the username
Message-ID: <20140728200744.GA18098@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <dc3fda62c3e94eba9d29fd4b34f2e7cc@EXCHLONDON2013.zoo.lan>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:33:23AM +0000, David Braden wrote:

> 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