Re: Proper URI for "svn clone" on a network share (Win32)

From: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2013, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20130820191153.377e93d1@bigbox.christie.dr>
In-Reply-To: <20130814124933.77b51a04@bigbox.christie.dr>

On 2013-08-14 12:49, Tim Chase wrote:

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>   c:\temp> git svn clone "file:///x:/path/to/repo/trunk/utils/project1"
> 
> but get various failures.  My best-effort (above) gets me as far as
> actually starting some sort of clone but it dies with
> 
> """
> Permission denied: Can't open '/tmp/report.tmp': Permission denied 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 1210
> """
> 
> PS: I don't really care much about pushing back to svn, existing
> svn branches or tags, or username mapping.  If needed, I can apply
> patches out of git which is far less painful than switching/merging
> branches in svn.  So I can be a little rough-shod with cloning the
> svn repo.
> 
> PPS: in case it matters:
> C:\work\utils\temp\ios>git version
> git version 1.8.3.msysgit.0

Just tickling this thread. I tried John Keeping's suggestions on setting TMPDIR to some known location, but I continue getting the same error about "Can't open '/tmp/report.tmp': Permission denied..." both in cmd.exe and within the bash.exe that comes with msysgit.

In additional peculiarity from my testing, if I point a true Linux shell at the same network-mounted drive, it seems to work just fine:

  tim@host:/tmp$ git svn clone file:///mnt/svnroot/trunk/utils/project1
  tim@host:/tmp$ git --version
  git version 1.5.6.5

(yeah, that's a REALLY ancient version of git on an old Debian Lenny box, but if *that* works, 1.8.x shouldn't have ANY trouble with it)

Any further ideas?

-tkc