From 9f861efccfb41ca480d9f179d79ad9b27d6c6de8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Remi Rampin <remirampin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:27:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Encode special characters in password

---
 bin/github-backup | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/github-backup b/bin/github-backup
index b290de6..5c93ce2 100755
--- a/bin/github-backup
+++ b/bin/github-backup
@@ -243,7 +243,11 @@ def get_auth(args, encode=True):
     elif args.username:
         if not args.password:
             args.password = getpass.getpass()
-        auth = args.username + ':' + args.password
+        if encode:
+            password = args.password
+        else:
+            password = urllib.quote(args.password)
+        auth = args.username + ':' + password
     elif args.password:
         log_error('You must specify a username for basic auth')