Re: git svn clone failing

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Feb 24, 2011, 22:44 UTC
Message-ID: <1298587459.22431.19.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim9obiU2H_PLb=O1=YxTr1nZ0v-zXC7mxUORVAH@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:21 +0100, Vampire wrote:

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> Hi Drew,
> 
> SVN client is in version 1.6.5.
> svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk .
> works fine and without problem.
> I guess it is in the phase of searching for history in other places in
> the repository and there some place is accessed that is password
> protected.
> I did not contact the server admin as the normal svn client works fine
> and so it seems to be a problem of git-svn, not of the SVN server.
> Did you try the command I gave you and does it succeed for you? It is
> a publicly available repository so you should be able to reproduce the
> problem.
> 
> Regards
> Björn

The error is reproducible, and I'm running a newer subversion client than you are. It definitely isn't making it through all of the revisions available before dying.

..... Checked through r161300 Checked through r161400 RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc /default' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5131

I forgot to ask, which version git are you running? I am running 1.7.4 on the machine I tried this (RHEL5 RPM, compiled locally).

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> 2011/2/18 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>:
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:24 +0100, Vampire wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to issue the following command:
> >>
> >> git svn clone --stdlayout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/ .
> >>
> >> But unfortunately this fails after some time with the message:
> >>
> >> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403
> >> Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for
> >> '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default' at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4354
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Björn
> >
> > Björn,
> > Have you made sure your subversion client is up-to-date? Does this work
> > as a plain svn clone? Have you contacted the server admin?
> > Without context we cannot act on this.
> >

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-Drew Northup
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