Re: git-svn "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use" and skelta mode

From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
Date: Jul 5, 2013, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID: <51D75196.4030100@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <E82AC74E-3294-415D-8E59-97DDD213B11A@gmail.com>

On 7/5/2013 3:58 PM, Kyle McKay wrote:

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> On Jul 5, 2013, at 13:48, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my Subversion server to 1.8.0 and started
>> receiving the following error from "git svn fetch":
>>
>> Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/Git.pm line 1024.
>>
>> This occurs only when using an http:// URL; svn:// URLs work fine.
> [snip]
>> The client is Cygwin: svn version 1.8.0 and git version
>> 1.8.3.2.
> 
> The subversion 1.8 release has removed the neon library, all svn client
> http access now always goes through the serf library.  If you put
> "http-library = serf" in the "[global]" section of the
> "~/.subversion/servers" file you will get the 'svn_delta' error with
> git-svn when running earlier versions of the svn client as well.

That was not my experience. I did try this with the 1.7 perl bindings and libraries and with "http-library = serf" in by servers and it worked fine. I confirmed that serf was being used with a Wireshark trace.

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