Adrian Wilkins <adrian.wilkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Recently converted a large (11,000+ revisions) repository. > > We authenticate against the NT domain controller, so all our revision > authors are of the form "domain\user". (You can switch off mod_sspi > reporting the domain part, but I didn't know about this at the time, > so it continues for historical reasons.) > > git-svn treats the literal backslashes in the author names as escapes. > This leads to authors like > > domainkevin > domain\ > ichard > > I know, I should have read the manual and used my "authors" file. Bah. > > I'm sure that part of the revision hash in git includes the author > name... so I guess I'm looking at another multi-day conversion. :-( git-filter-branch should be able to take care of it. If you find an invocation that's useful to others, it'd be great to post it on the list as well :) > Can I suggest that you make the authors file compulsory by default as well? Not going to happen. I personally _hate_ having to track down author information and make an authors file, and I suspect many others feel the same. I've never used this feature in git-svn on any real repository. -- Eric Wong - 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
