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

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.

The code that does the parsing is:

# '<svn username> = real-name <email address>' mapping based on git-svnimport:
sub load_authors {
                open my $authors, '<', $_authors or die "Can't open $_authors $!\n";
                my $log = $cmd eq 'log';
                while (<$authors>) {
                                chomp;
                                next unless /^(.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/;
                                my ($user, $name, $email) = ($1, $2, $3);
                                if ($log) {
                                                $Git::SVN::Log::rusers{"$name <$email>"} = $user;
                                } else {
                                                $users{$user} = [$name, $email];
                                }
                }
                close $authors or croak $!;
}

How can I work around this limitation?

Thanks

David David Braden Tel : 020 7485 7500 ext 3199 | Fax : 020 7485 7575

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