From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: David Braden <David.Braden@softwire.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn authors file and SVN users with ‘=’ in the username
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:07:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140728200744.GA18098@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc3fda62c3e94eba9d29fd4b34f2e7cc@EXCHLONDON2013.zoo.lan>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:33:23AM +0000, David Braden wrote:
> 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.
> [...]
> How can I work around this limitation?
I have not tried it, but I suspect --authors-prog might work, as it
passes the name as an argument to the program.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 11:33 git-svn authors file and SVN users with ‘=’ in the username David Braden
2014-07-28 20:07 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-07-29 8:35 ` David Braden
2014-07-29 9:26 ` Jeff King
2014-07-29 9:32 ` David Braden
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