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git-svn fails with non-alphanumeric SVN authors

From
Craig de Stigter <craig.destigter@koordinates.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2010, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID
<e260aad41002241247r180d5477kd18f5cbee8109634@mail.gmail.com>
Hi list
I'm trying to use git-svn to move our subversion to git. Some of the
authors in our SVN repository are x.509 identifiers, so my authors
file has some entries like this:
   /C=NZ/ST=New Zealand/L=Auckland/O=Koordinates
Ltd/OU=IS/CN=cdestigter = Craig de Stigter
<craig.destigter@koordinates.com>
git-svn doesn't like that - it fails saying:
   Author: /C=NZ/ST=New Zealand/L=Auckland/O=Koordinates
Ltd/OU=IS/CN=cdestigter not defined in ./authors.txt file

I presume it is choking on either the spaces or the '=' characters in the SVN username?

Comments / workarounds / fixes welcome... I'm avoiding messing with git-svn myself since I have no perl knowledge at all.

Thanks for any help Craig de Stigter

-- Koordinates Ltd PO Box 1604, Shortland St, Auckland, New Zealand Phone +64-9-966 0433 Fax +64-9-969 0045 Web http://www.koordinates.com

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