Re: git-svn and renames

> Hi folks,
> 
> I am trying to push my local changes to an imported SVN project back to 
> the SVN repo. For anyone who cares, this is the WebGoat repository which 
> you can find at http://dawes.za.net/rogan/webgoat/webgoat.git/
> 
> I am trying to push it back to the primary GoogleCode repo. I have 
> successfully managed to push 20 or so commits, but I am now running up 
> against a problem with a renamed/moved file.
> 
> I moved a file from a directory to a subdirectory, and made minimal 
> changes to this file so that it remained a valid Java class. i.e. I 
> changed the package, and a few other minor things. As can be seen at 
> <http://dawes.za.net/gitweb.cgi?p=rogan/webgoat/webgoat.git;a=commitdiff;h=486416188a3e49d60e1510166ac197e5e66cc4d2>, 
>  git detects the rename with 93% similarity.
> 
> However, when I try to push this change to the Google repo, git-svn dies 
> with the following error:
> 
> $ git svn dcommit
> RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk/ 
> webgoat/main/project/JavaSource/org/owasp/webgoat/lessons/DefaultLessonAction.java': 
> PROPFIND of '/svn/trunk/ 
> webgoat/main/project/JavaSource/org/owasp/webgoat/lessons/DefaultLessonAction.java': 
> 400 Bad Request (https://webgoat.googlecode.com) at 
> /home/rdawes/bin/git-svn line 400
> 
> [Yes, those paths have a space in them, however this does not seem to 
> have prevented me from committing the previous 20 or so changes.]
> 
> I noted the following in the git-svn documentation, with regards to 
> handling renames. However, I am not renaming a directory, only a couple 
> of files.