Re: [PATCH] git-svn: trim leading and trailing whitespaces in author name

> In some cases, the svn author names might contain leading or trailing
> whitespaces, leading to messages such as:
>
>   Author: user1
>    not defined in authors.txt
>
> (the trailing newline leads to the line break). The user "user1" is
> defined in authors.txt though, e.g.
>
>   user1 = User <user1@example.com>
>
> Fix this by trimming the author name retreived from svn before using it
> in check_author.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
> ---
> diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ sub call_authors_prog {
>  sub check_author {
>         my ($author) = @_;
> +       $author =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
>         if (!defined $author || length $author == 0) {
>                 $author = '(no author)';
>         }