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Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters

From
TPTorsten Paul <torsten.paul@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 17, 2008, 07:34 UTC
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<487EF619.3000805@gmx.de>
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<18558.35423.933860.915622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
 > 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?
 >
The header of the commits look like this:

tree 2eaf317290917660c03dc977d5eae180b39420e0 parent e99bf1c38540300c501dbe776de28eed6a2250cd author DOM\paul <DOM\paul@28e39a90-19ad-e645-8baa-5c9ab2323746> 1216216768 +0000 committer DOM\paul <DOM\paul@28e39a90-19ad-e645-8baa-5c9ab2323746> 1216216768 +0000

With my name it's just not displaying the backslash, but with names starting with a 't' or even better 'n' it get's more interresting as they are shown as tab or newline. And that looks very funny in the commit list view.

ciao,
   Torsten.
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