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

From: Richard MUSIL <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:47:59 +0200

Eric Wong wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes! I am sorry for a confusion, I have tested it on '.' version, but committed the wrong one :(.

Richard