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

From: Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>
Date: May 28, 2008, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20080528091633.GA3919@penelope.zusammrottung.local>
In-Reply-To: <483D190F.4030101@vilain.net>

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:34:23PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> >  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

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> It helps to include the breaking change's details in the message in
> reports like this.  Here it is:
> 
> From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
> Subject: git-svn: add a generic tree traversal to fetch SVN properties
> 
>     * git-svn.perl (&traverse_ignore): Remove.
>     (&prop_walk): New.
>     (&cmd_show_ignore): Use prop_walk.
> 
> [ew: This will ease the implementation of the `create-ignore',
>      `propget', and `proplist' commands]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Thanks, I thought it could be considered chatter. :-)

It looks like the patch from Christian Engwer posted here yesterday[1] is a fix for the described problem.

> As a side note, "svn:mergeinfo" is rapidly becoming an 'interesting'
> property and should probably be added to the list.

That's interesting, I wasn't aware they're finally tackling merge tracking.

Nikolaus

[1] see Gerrit Pape's message "[PATCH] git-svn fails in prop_walk if
    $self->{path} is not empty"