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 used the following which helps skip messages with words like 'authorization' in them

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