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

From: Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 09:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070105091855.GA10777@hermes.lan.home.vilz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070101022734.GF7730@hand.yhbt.net>

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 06:27:34PM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > 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.

Actually I can fetch the revisions now again. Maybe that that little trailing slash did it.

Nicolas Vilz