sub call_authors_prog {
my ($orig_author) = @_;
+ $orig_author = command_oneline('rev-parse', '--sq-quote', $orig_author);
my $author = `$::_authors_prog $orig_author`;
if ($? != 0) {
die "$::_authors_prog failed with exit code $?\n"
my $c = '';
do {
$url .= "/$c" if length $c;
- eval { (ref $self)->new($url)->get_latest_revnum };
+ eval {
+ my $ra = (ref $self)->new($url);
+ my $latest = $ra->get_latest_revnum;
+ $ra->get_log("", $latest, 0, 1, 0, 1, sub {});
+ };
} while ($@ && ($c = shift @components));
$url;
}