git-svn fails with non-alphanumeric SVN authors

Craig de Stigter· Feb 24, 2010, 20:47 UTC · lore

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

Mark Lodato· Feb 25, 2010, 02:52 UTC · re: Craig de Stigter · lore

Re: git-svn fails with non-alphanumeric SVN authors

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Craig de Stigter <craig.destigter@koordinates.com> wrote:

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> 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?

Yes. The --authors-file option reads the name up to the first equals sign, which causes a problem for the X.509 identifiers. I had this exact problem, which is why I implemented --authors-prog. [1] In my case, I could compute the username and email address from the X.509 id, so I didn't have to list them all out. Perhaps you can use this to solve your problem? Even if you can't compute the name directly from the X.509 ID, you could implement your own lookup in a script.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg103524.html