On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:37:39PM -0700, Duff wrote: > I'm trying to import from another company's SVN server (with their > permission of course), however some of their SVN user entries have > carriage returns in them. It causes git-svn to die when I use the -- > authors-file option, because I can't add a username with a carriage > return in that file. (Or can I?) > > I see the following options, but I'd love more or easier ones. Here > they are: > > 1. Talk to the maintainer of the SVN server to remove the carriage > returns in the names. > 2. Edit git-svn.perl and recompile git. > 3. Skip the revisions that have the carriage return in them. > 4. Don't bother with the authors-file. > > The SVN maintainer is a great guy but very busy, so I don't know when > he'll get to removing carriage returns, or if he'll agree to do so > anyway. I'm using an IT controlled box, so I can't edit the /usr/bin/ > git-svn file. I switched to a box that I had control over, but the > version of git installed didn't have the /usr/bin/git-svn file at > all. (I figure it's wrapped up into a single package now?) So, I > tried to edit the git-svn.perl file in the source and recompile, but > I'm getting an error. Two ideas: * Removing bogus characters from committers' names is, indeed, a major undertaking as it would involve "filtering" the actual repo using Subversion's administration tools; so I can understand why the admin is somewhat reluctant to work on this. So, can you ask him/her to just provide you with a dump of the original repo? You then could remove that trash characters yourself and then import the resulting repo into Git without any hacks on the Git's side. * Perl is a scripting language which means it compiles the source file just before executing the code in it, that is, on the fly. Hence when you change a .pl file there's absolutely no need to recompile anything. I mean, if you have a box you control (you can install Git onto it), just patch the interesting file in place after getting git-svn up and running.
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