From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:05:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message
Message-ID: <49F8C127.4000400@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90904291347i2ed158aaya7505e1bd11cd392@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 29.04.2009 22:47:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Given the versions that fail for Martin and work for Avery and me I
>> would think it's not a git issue but rather a matter of the svn version
>> resp. the svn perl bindingds.
> 
> Good point. The machine where this is failing is an Ubuntu Intrepid box...
> 
> $ dpkg -l libsvn* | grep '^i'
> ii  libsvn-perl                                1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2
>                 Perl bindings for Subversion
> ii  libsvn1                                    1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2
>                 Shared libraries used by Subversion
> ii  libsvncpp1                                 0.9.6-1
>                 Subversion C++ shared library
> dpkg -l subversion* | grep '^i'
> ii  subversion                                 1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2
>                 Advanced version control system
> 
> On the F9 box where things succeed...
> 
> $rpm -qa subversion*
> subversion-perl-1.4.6-7.i386
> subversion-1.4.6-7.i386
> $ rpm -qa *svn*
> git-svn-1.6.0.6-3.fc9.i386
> 
> What are the versions in that F-10 box? Could it be an incompatibility
> with svn-1.5.x?

1.5.4

But I just re-read your original report, and there's some inconsistency:

git-svn triggers cat-file's usage message which says "git-cat-file ...".
The dash indicates that it is a git cat-file before v1.6.0.1-13-g34baebc
(where the dash was removed), so it's definitely not the current maint
you think you are using.

Do you have older ubuntu git packages installed in $PATH?

Michael