From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:03:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Minimum required version of subversion for git-svn?
Message-ID: <20090112010354.GB23377@yp-box.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <496722CF.1060802@statsbiblioteket.dk>

"Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With git 1.6.0.5 I was able to run git-svn with subversion 1.1.4 on
> RHEL4/i386 but with 1.6.0.6 and 1.6.1 the testsuite now fails in the new
> test t9104.10:

...

> With 1.6.1 I also see t9129.10-12 failing with subversion 1.1.4:
> * FAIL 10: ISO-8859-1 should match UTF-8 in svn

...

> * failed 3 among 12 test(s)
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.6.1/t'
> make[2]: *** [t9129-git-svn-i18n-commitencoding.sh] Error 1
>
> I see in git-svn.perl that only SVN::Core 1.1.0 is required. Is it still
> the intention that git-svn should work with subversion 1.1.x?
>
> If you're going to bump the minimum requirement I would ask that you
> atleast keep 1.3.x as supported. This is the last release of subversion
> where RHEL3 can satisfy the dependencies out of the box and I've
> verified that the testsuite will pass with 1.3.2.

It's still my intention that SVN 1.1.x is supported; but I haven't had
the chance to test those versions in a while.

Can you rerun the tests that failed with "sh -x t91..." ?

Thanks.

-- 
Eric Wong