Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters

From: Torsten Paul <torsten.paul@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 19, 2008, 15:16 UTC
Message-ID: <48820534.7080806@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <18558.35423.933860.915622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> 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?
>

I've created a small script that creates a minimal repo that shows the problem...

ciao,
   Torsten.

#!/bin/bash

# # Script to generate git commit messages that # contain windows style user names. This kind of # names are generated when using git-svn with a # svn-repo that uses NTLM authentification. #

EXT="@23e39a30-19ad-a625-8bac-5c9ab2323746"

do_commit () {
         F=test.txt
         echo "test$1" > "$F"
         git add "$F"

         M="<$2$EXT>"

         GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$2" \
         GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$M" \
         GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$2" \
         GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$M" \
         git commit -m "commit $1"
}

DIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/gitk-test.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1 trap "rm -rf \"$DIR\"" EXIT cd $DIR || exit 2

git init do_commit 1 "paul" do_commit 2 "WIN\paul" do_commit 3 "WIN\test" do_commit 4 "WIN\nobody" do_commit 5 "WIN\paul" do_commit 6 "paul" gitk