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Fix #1310
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Expand Up @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ $ svn log --xml --quiet | grep author | sort -u | \
perl -pe 's/.*>(.*?)<.*/$1 = /'
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[NOTE]
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If you're trying this on a Windows machine, this is the point where you'll run into trouble.
Microsoft have provided some good advice and samples at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/perform-migration-from-svn-to-git[].
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That generates the log output in XML format, then keeps only the lines with author information, discards duplicates, strips out the XML tags.
(Obviously this only works on a machine with `grep`, `sort`, and `perl` installed.)
Then, redirect that output into your `users.txt` file so you can add the equivalent Git user data next to each entry.
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