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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:55:11 +1000
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Torsten Paul writes:

> I'm tracking a subversion repository which is running on
> a windows machine with git-svn. The user names look like
> DOMAIN\username and that's giving a strange display in
> gitk as the backslash sequence is evaluated.
> 
> I'm not sure if I found the correct place to prevent this,
> so I'd like to ask if the following change would be the
> correct thing to prepare as patch...

Something like that, I think, but to be sure I'd like to see the
actual author and committer lines that are causing the problem.  Could
you send me the output of "git cat-file commit" on one of the
problematic commits?

Thanks,
Paul.