Re: git svn clone - Malformed network data: The XML response contains invalid XML: Malformed XML: no element found at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 312

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2018, 05:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20180122054034.GA9759@starla>
In-Reply-To: <042F7DAF79EF4C29B85958BD75AE019F@blackfat>

Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us> wrote:

> 
> I am asuming that this is an issue caused by codeplex's svn
> from tfs implementation. Does anyone here have any insight?

Seems like it, even using svn(1) fails (see below)

> r27599 = 9e769d8327767a155d7b96b7cc28579cf0ed4c93 (refs/remotes/git-svn)
> Malformed network data: The XML response contains invalid XML: Malformed XML: no element found at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 312.

OK, so lets find out what the next commit is after r27599:

  svn log -v -r 27599:HEAD https://smtp4dev.svn.codeplex.com/svn

  # which tells me r27864

  svn diff -r 27599:27864 https://smtp4dev.svn.codeplex.com/svn
  # which tells me:
  svn: E130003: The XML response contains invalid XML

strace only shows encrypted data, so maybe there's a flag or debug option you can enable in SVN itself to see what was in the bad XML or maybe contact the admin to see if it can be fixed.