"Migrating to git from SVN" example script garbled by HTML special characters

[thenickdude]

In the Migrating to Git section of the manual there's a script "to get a list of the author names that SVN uses", which displays in the browser as:

$ svn log --xml | grep author | sort -u | \
  perl -pe 's/.*>(.*?)<.>

It looks like it has some unescaped HTML characters in it which are trashing this script (perhaps helped out by an automated HTML-tidy process), but it also appears to have an unterminated string in the argument to Perl due to being truncated.

The PDF version of the manual shows the script as this on page 464, which is radically different:

svn log --xml | grep author | sort -u | \
   perl -pe 's/.*>(.*?)<.*/$1 = /'

[sxlijin]

This no longer seems to be an issue and should be closed.