From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:39:19 GMT
Subject: git-svn url-encodes ~ when it should not
Message-ID: <20081018213919.GC3107@atjola.homenet>

Hi,

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo reported on #git that a git-svn clone of this
svn repo fails for him:
https://sucs.org/~welshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk

I can reproduce that here with:
git-svn version 1.6.0.2.541.g46dc1.dirty (svn 1.5.1)

The error message I get is:
Apache got a malformed URI: Unusable URI: it does not refer to this
repository at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4057

strace revealed that git-svn url-encodes ~ while svn does not do that.

For svn we have:
write(5, "<S:update-report send-all=\"true\" xmlns:S=\"svn:\">
<S:src-path>https://sucs.org/~welshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk</S:src-path>...

While git-svn shows:
write(7, "<S:update-report send-all=\"true\" xmlns:S=\"svn:\">
<S:src-path>https://sucs.org/%7Ewelshbyte/svn/backuptool/trunk</S:src-path>...

Björn