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

From: David Braden <david.braden@softwire.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2014, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <49f272949fef4122b2eb83a7a242e366@EXCHLONDON2013.zoo.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20140728200744.GA18098@peff.net>

Yeah, the --authors-prog does work.  Is there a way to save the configuration though so you don't have to add it everytime time you rebase or dcommit?

Thanks

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
Sent: 28 July 2014 21:08
To: David Braden
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn authors file and SVN users with ‘=’ in the username

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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