I can do that. Note that I am about to go home and would do the commit
after my arrival there, which should be in about 2 hours (*).

(*) Normally 1/2 hour, however nowadays I try to walk a bit longer for exercise.

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you planning to check your changes in?
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Andreas Kupries <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Using the fossil head, i.e.
>>     This is fossil version 1.29 [5d4400400a] 2014-05-27 20:36:33 UTC
>>
>> for a git export on my clone of
>>     http://core.tcl.tk/akupries/fx/home
>>
>> I.e.
>>     fossil export --git > DUMP
>>
>> the resulting DUMP contains lines of the form:
>>
>> % grep -n ^committer DUMP| head
>> 229901:committer Andreas Kupries < <[email protected]> 1367645581 +0000
>> [...]
>>
>> Note the lone "<" between the user name and the email address in its own
>> <...>.
>> The git fast_import chokes on that.
>>
>> Looking at my 'info' the data looks ok, i.e
>>
>> % fx user list
>> Checkout @ /home/aku/Projects/Tools/Fossil2Git/source.fossil
>>
>> +-----------------+-------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------+----------------+
>> | Name            | Permissions | Contact                            |
>> Changed                      | Notes          |
>>
>> +-----------------+-------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------+----------------+
>> | aku             | s           | Andreas Kupries <[email protected]> |
>> Wed Apr 23 22:59:44 PDT 2014 |                |
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> A quick look at
>>   static void print_person(const char *zUser)
>> in
>>   fossil/src/export.c
>>
>> which I believe is most likely responsible for the broken output, did
>> not show anything obvious.
>>
>> However the code looks to be a bit complex with searching for "<", ">",
>> etc.
>> I suspect I have to single-step it to understand what is going on.
>>
>> ... Looking a bit more I now suspect the line
>>
>>      zName = mprintf("%.*s", i, zContact);
>>
>> because if I read the previous search right the "i" points to the
>> opening "<" of the mail at that point, making it part of the extracted
>> zName.
>>
>> Yes, changing this to i-1 gets rid of the bogus "<" in the output and
>> "git fast_import" accepts the DUMP file.
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> * I have no desire to bisect the repository to see where the issue came in
>> ...
>>
>>   ... Oh, ok, it seems to have been part of the initial implementation
>> of the git export in 2011.
>>
>>
>> http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/0f024d3e30741af3403c1c87ee5d689741e5a63c
>>      It seems to trigger only for users which have email addresses in
>> their contact info.
>>
>> * The code should possibly trim trailing whitespace from the extracted
>> name.
>>
>>   With my small fix there is a trailing space in the name which is
>> placed into the output as well, leading to two spaces between name and
>> email. The fast_import is ok with that, it just offends my tastes re
>> data formatting.
>>
>>
>>
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