Nicolas Vilz <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello, > > i tried to use git-svn with author-files and got stuck with following > error message: > > Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/git-svn line > 2952. > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/bin/git-svn line 2953. > Author: not defined in .git/info/svn-authors file > 512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 457 > main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 328 > main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 187 > Am i doing something wrong? No, this is just a bug in git-svn. After the following patch, you should be able to use -------------------------------------------- (no author) = real-name <email address> -------------------------------------------- in your authors file. -- Eric Wong >From b40e14605809b0b1501002a333fbd680913f127f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:22:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: correctly handle "(no author)" when using an authors file The low-level parts of the SVN library return NULL/undef for author-less revisions, whereas "(no author)" is a (svn) client convention. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> --- git-svn.perl | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 1f8a3b0..17ebb77 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -2948,7 +2948,8 @@ sub libsvn_log_entry { my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S) = ($date =~ /^(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)T (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d).\d+Z$/x) or die "Unable to parse date: $date\n"; - if (defined $_authors && ! defined $users{$author}) { + if (defined $author && length $author > 0 && + defined $_authors && ! defined $users{$author}) { die "Author: $author not defined in $_authors file\n"; } $msg = '' if ($rev == 0 && !defined $msg); -- 1.4.4.2.g860f4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html