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Re: git-svn throwing assertion on old svn tracking branch

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Jan 1, 2007, 02:27 UTC
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<20070101022734.GF7730@hand.yhbt.net>
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Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
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> Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
> > hello guys,
> > 
> > it has been a while, i tried git in conjunction with svn... i got a nice
> > history, when working with it. This Work is now a year old.
> > 
> > Now I wanted to get on working and got following error message while
> > fetching from one specific svn tracking branch:
> > 
> > $ git-svn fetch -i svn_master
> > perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/path.c:343: svn_path_remove_component: 
> > Assertion `is_canonical(path->data, path->len)' failed.
> > Aborted

Actually, I just hit upon a weird bug in svm (SVN::Mirror) that was similar to this (line 114 of the same file, 1.4.2dfsg1-2 in Debian). Can you try taking the trailing slash out of the URL? (.git/svn/svn_master/info/url).

Thanks.
-- 
Eric Wong
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