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Author not defined when importing SVN repository into Git

I'm trying to import our SVN repository into Git. When I run either this command:

git svn --authors-file=/path/to/authors --trunk=trunk clone https://my-repo/project .

or this command:

svn2git https://my-repo/project --no-minimize-url -v --authors /path/to/authors

Both return this error:

Author: patrick  not defined in /path/to/authors file

..but as far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with my authors file:

$ grep patrick /path/to/authors
patrick = Patrick <[email protected]>

That error doesn't happen until it gets to revision 8700, so it must be grabbing the other author names correctly.

What could be going on here? Thanks.

Solution

  • There were two problems:

    I solved the first by assigning unique email addresses to each author.

    Also, the username was "patrick ". I have no idea how that happened, but by using svnadmin I was able to change all instances of that nickname to just "patrick".