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git-svn {show,create}-ignore chokes upon subdirs

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NSNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
Date
May 27, 2008, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20080527162002.GA21855@penelope.zusammrottung.local>
Hi,

when importing subversion repositories into git, git-svn show-ignore and create-ignore choke when scanning project subdirectories. For example, with the sequence

 git-svn init -s http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/producingoss producingoss-git-svn
 cd producingoss-git-svn
 git-svn fetch
 git-svn create-ignore 
the last command prints this: 
 HTTP Path Not Found: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca': '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca' path not found at /home/nikolaus/nfs/nsbp/git/git/git-svn line 1897

Revision 1465 is the latest subversion revision of the project. git-svn create-ignore stages a correct .gitignore in the top level directory, then aborts with the same error. I have tested this with two svn projects, the result is identical. Bisecting suggested that this is broken since commit 01bdab84e31763a98206c31cf99b9dc3cb221356.

Nikolaus
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