Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Minimalistic patch which allows svn usernames with space(s).

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:55:59 -0700

Richard MUSIL <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Changed filter for username in svn-authors file, so even 'user name' is accepted.
> ---
>  git-svn.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
> index 01c3904..975075e 100755
> --- a/git-svn.perl
> +++ b/git-svn.perl
> @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ sub load_authors {
>         my $log = $cmd eq 'log';
>         while (<$authors>) {
>                 chomp;
> -               next unless /^(\S+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/;
> +               next unless /^(\.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/;

Surely you mean the following:

+               next unless /^(.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/;

(No "\" before the ".")   "\." matches a dot/period (.), while "."
matches anything.

-- 
Eric Wong