title: What is the format of an authors file for git svn, specifically for special characters like backslash or underscore?
body: <p>I am trying to clone <a href="http://papercut.codeplex.com/" rel="noreferrer">Papercut, an smtp server emulator</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm getting the list of SVN authors with <code>svn log -q https://papercut.svn.codeplex.com/svn | grep -e '^r'| awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"};{print $2}'|sort|uniq</code> which is giving me</p>
  
  <pre><code>RNO\_MCLWEB
  SND\krobertson_cp
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  <p>I created an authors.txt with the <code>SVN_User = UserName &lt;Email&gt;</code> format, but when I run</p>
  
  <pre><code>git svn clone --no-metadata -A authors.txt https://papercut.svn.codeplex.com/svn papercut
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  <p>it complains "Author: RNO\_MCLWEB not defined in authors.txt file"</p>
  
  <p>I've tried with putting a \ before the '\' and '_' to try to escape them, and adding quotes around the name, but neither worked.</p>
  
  <p>I can't find any better description of the authors.txt file format than <code>SVN_User = UserName &lt;Email&gt;</code></p>