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Re: git-svn url-encodes ~ when it should not

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 18, 2008, 22:47 UTC
Message-ID
<20081018224728.GD3107@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To
<20081018213919.GC3107@atjola.homenet>
[Adding Jose to Cc:, didn't have his address earlier]
On 2008.10.18 23:39:19 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
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> 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
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Message 2 of 9 in “git-svn url-encodes ~ when it should not”
  1. Björn SteinbrinkOct 18, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkOct 18, 2008
  3. git-svn: don't escape tilde ('~') for http(s) URLsEric Wong, Oct 21, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2008
  5. Mike HommeyOct 22, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2008
  7. Eric WongOct 22, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2008
  9. Eric WongOct 24, 2008

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