The committer column in the database allows max 255 characters. With longer authors, this would result in a schema violation. By manually truncating the author field, we can avoid this.
Patch by Holger Just (@hjust).
git-svn-id: https://svn.redmine.org/redmine/trunk@22910 e93f8b46-1217-0410-a6f0-8f06a7374b81