What is the format of an authors file for git svn, specifically for special characters like backslash or underscore?

Question

I am trying to clone Papercut, an smtp server emulator

I\'m getting the list of SVN authors with svn log -q https://papercut.svn.codeplex.com/svn | grep -e \'^

Answer 1

I had this issue, it turned out to be the file encoding in my example. Make sure the text file is saved at UTF-8

You can do this in any good text edit (eg notepad++ Encoding menu)