As a temporary work-around, I noticed that manually (with a script)
changing the user names in the dump file works quite well. I used a
simple lowercasing function on them, but, naturally, a dictionary could
have been used instead.

Dirk wrote:
> 
>>
>> I think the best approach would be to allow a text file with
>> VSS-to-Subversion name mappings, or have the command-line switch
>> instead be a search-and-replace regex to apply to all VSS usernames,
>> because there certainly will be cases where people want to munge their
>> names in other ways, and I'd like to avoid a command-line switch for
>> each use case. But since you're the first to ask for something along
>> those lines, it's at least better than nothing.
> 
> While talking about this, I have the problem, that I have soemtimes
> german umlauts in user names and sometimes I have their replacements:
> "oe" vs "รถ". So I would prefer to have a mapping file, to be able to map
> two different users to the same svn user.
> 
> However, there is a little workflow problem. Because you have to run the
> conversion once in order to get a list of user names, modify the file
> and then run again to have them applied.
> 
> A "--lowercase" switch is the easier way ;-)
> 
> Dirk

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