Re: git svn clone failure

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Mar 28, 2009, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <200903281620.29564.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <F76E6356-60EB-4FDE-B97E-CB34FF2D7017@gmail.com>

Lachlan Deck, 28.03.2009:

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> On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> 
> > Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting
> >> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
> >> ...
> >> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
> >> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
> >
> > Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?
> 
> A few thousand out, yes.
> 
> > I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,  
> > it
> > doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
> > though.
> 
> Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://..
> But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?

At least I don't have more info about it except for this: I use Gentoo Linux and the git ebuild (I have the distribution package installed, but use the self-compiled git) says

    "Per Gentoo bugs #223747, #238586, when subversion is built"
    "with USE=dso, there may be weird crashes in git-svn. You"
    "have been warned."

I have subversion compiled with dso (Enable runtime module search), it's enabled per default. And since it worked, I didn't change it. But it would be interesting to see, if this error has something to do with it. Maybe I'll try it out.

Markus