Re: [PATCH] git-svn: correctly access repos when only given partial read permissions

> Eric Wong wrote:
> > Sometimes users are given only read access to a subtree inside a
> > repository, and git-svn could not read log information (and thus
> > fetch commits) when connecting a session to the root of the
> > repository.  We now start an SVN::Ra session with the full URL
> > of what we're tracking, and not the repository root as before.
> > 
> > This change was made much easier with a cleanup of
> > repo_path_split() usage as well as improving the accounting of
> > authentication batons.
> 
> This broke mirroring file:/// URIs;
> 
> eg, if I have ~/.svk/local as a SVN repository, which has a complete
> mirror of a URL under mirror/fai, and I want to copy the revisions into
> git using git-svn, I use:
> 
> perl ~/src/git/git-svn multi-init -t tags -T trunk \
>      file:///home/samv/.svk/local/mirror/fai
> 
> I now get this error:
> 
> Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 8514, path
> '/mirror/fai/tags/mirror/fai/tags' at /home/samv/src/git/git-svn line 3236