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Re: A bug with "git svn show-externals"

From
EWEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date
Oct 26, 2016, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID
<20161026191023.GA24666@starla>
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<B8D25850-A4DE-435C-A856-240D612D59DA@me.com>
Tao Peng <pengtao@me.com> wrote:
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> Hi there,
> 
> I met a bug of the "git svn show-externals” command.  If a subdirectory item has a svn:externals property, and the format of the property is “URL first, then the local path”, running "git svn show-externals” command at the root level will result in an unusable output.
> 
> Example:
> $ svn pg svn:externals svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/ref/English.lproj/
> svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings
+Cc Vineet who originally implemented this 9 years ago

I've never used externals much, but I guess it's common for externals to be a full URL and not merely a relative path to somewhere within the same SVN repo.

> $ git svn show-externals
> # /English.lproj/
> /English.lproj/svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings
> 
> This bug is preventing my script from correctly finishing the svn-to-git repo migration work. Does anyone know a workaround to this bug?

Can you try the following change to ignore path prefixing for full URLs?

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 4d41d22..ced665a 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -1303,7 +1303,9 @@ sub cmd_show_externals {
 		my $s = $props->{'svn:externals'} or return;
 		$s =~ s/[\r\n]+/\n/g;
 		chomp $s;
-		$s =~ s#^#$path#gm;
+		if ($s !~ m#^[a-z\+]+://#i) {
+			$s =~ s#^#$path#gm;
+		}
 		print STDOUT "$s\n";
 	});
 }
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  1. Tao PengOct 25, 2016
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