Currently, git-svn parses an authors file using the perl regex
/^(.+?|\(no author\))\s*=\s*(.+?)\s*<(.+)>\s*$/
in order to extract svn user name, real name and e-mail.
This does not match an empty e-mail field like "<>". On the other hand,
the output of an authors-prog is parsed with the perl regex