Subject: Re: gitk: Author/Committer name with special characters

From: Torsten Paul <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:34:49 +0200

Paul Mackerras wrote:
 > Something like that, I think, but to be sure I'd like to see the
 > actual author and committer lines that are causing the problem.  Could
 > you send me the output of "git cat-file commit" on one of the
 > problematic commits?
 >
The header of the commits look like this:

tree 2eaf317290917660c03dc977d5eae180b39420e0
parent e99bf1c38540300c501dbe776de28eed6a2250cd
author DOM\paul <DOM\paul@28e39a90-19ad-e645-8baa-5c9ab2323746> 1216216768 +0000
committer DOM\paul <DOM\paul@28e39a90-19ad-e645-8baa-5c9ab2323746> 1216216768 +0000

With my name it's just not displaying the backslash, but with names
starting with a 't' or even better 'n' it get's more interresting
as they are shown as tab or newline. And that looks very funny in
the commit list view.

ciao,
   Torsten.