I'm running into this problem as well. Can you explain how I would use
svndumpfilter to filter out the trash characters?
Thanks,
Phil
On Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:00:31 PM UTC-7, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
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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