From: Rogan Dawes Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:11:48 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn and googlecode.com? Message-ID: <466536E4.9040804@dawes.za.net> In-Reply-To: <200706051005.46603.andyparkins@gmail.com> Andy Parkins wrote: > On Tuesday 2007 June 05, Rogan Dawes wrote: > >> (Original) svn checkout http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webgoat >> >> (Funny, the initial path component had a space in it?!) > > I suspect that that is not the case. The form of svn checkout is: > > svn checkout > > So your command is saying check out http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ > to the local directory "webgoat". That is to say - it doesn't have a space > in it and in fact is nothing to do with the URL at all. > I guess I didn't explain it very well. The checked out project had a directory with a leading space in it: 0 $ ls -alp total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 3 rdawes Domain Users 0 Jun 4 14:20 webgoat/ drwxr-xr-x+ 4 rdawes Domain Users 0 Jun 4 14:20 ./ drwx------+ 28 rdawes ???????? 0 Jun 5 09:43 ../ drwxr-xr-x+ 10 rdawes Domain Users 0 Jun 4 14:20 .git/ Note the leading space before webgoat/? i.e. the initial path component actually does have a space in it. >> 0 $ git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat" >> https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ >> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ >> Using higher level of URL: https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk => >> https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn >> W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA >> layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/bc/100': >> REPORT of '/svn/!svn/bc/100': 200 OK (https://webgoat.googlecode.com) >> Path 'trunk/trunk/ webgoat' was probably deleted: > > ... which explains this error because there is no path "trunk/ webgoat". Not so, see below. >> However, the following command line does seem to work: >> >> git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat" https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/ > > Oh dear; I'm surprised it worked as well as it did. I just ran this command, > which seemed to work well: > > $ git-svn clone -T trunk http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/ webgoat-local > > This clones webgoat.googlecode.com/svn to the local directory webgoat-local; > you can change "webgoat-local" to anything you want, it's just naming the > directory on your own computer. Sure. But then you cd into webgoat-local/, do an "ls -l", and you'll see exactly the same thing I showed above. I'm still running your command above, but I'm seeing W: -empty_dir: trunk/ webgoat/main/project/JavaSource/org Note the space ^ > If you're the maintainer then perhaps you will want to change "http" > to "https" as well. > >> Note that I manually removed the "trunk" component from the URL. This >> suggests that there is something missing in the automatic "Using higher >> level" detection code. > > I think there is no bug; it's simply a misunderstanding. git-svn working > wonderfully for me. Um, I think that you did exactly what I said I did, namely removing the "trunk" component from the URL. Contrast: Yours: $ git-svn clone -T trunk http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/ \ webgoat-local Mine (original): $ git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat" \ https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ^^^^^ Mine (eventual): $ git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat" https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/ I'm sure there WAS a misunderstanding. It was me not understanding how to translate an SVN command line to a proper git command line, accounting for trunks, etc. That was one of the reasons I made the post, to clear it up, and to make sure that anyone searching for hints on how to use git to clone google code projects will find something, since I didn't. So, it seems that the rule for googlecode is something like: If the published command line is: svn checkout https://.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ You can clone this project using git-svn with the following command: git-svn clone -T trunk https://.googlecode.com/svn/ If this results in too many levels of directories in the checked out project (e.g. "/workspace/webgoat/ webgoat/"), take the extra directory component and add it to the -T parameter (e.g. "-T 'trunk/ webgoat'") Hopefully this helps the next person. Thanks for your response. Rogan