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

From: Kyle McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2013, 01:01 UTC
Message-ID: <5675CCAE-F4E8-48B7-8B63-BE91AAE09DD5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51D75196.4030100@acm.org>

On Jul 5, 2013, at 16:07, David Rothenberger wrote:

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

I had it always fail right away from my home ISP (kinda slow connection), but when running on a host with quite a different internet connection it would sometimes run for a while before generating the error (maybe a couple hundred revisions fetched) for some sources, but it would *always* eventually fail.

For this reason I also believe the problem is timing sensitive.

Try doing "git svn clone --quiet http://dev.heuristiclab.com/svn/hl/ core" with "~/.subversion/servers" section "[global]" including "http_library = serf". I find this one always seems to fail right away for me with git-svn over serf but will clone fine over neon (if you can stand to wait long enough).

I have been looking into using serf for git-svn clones ever since I discovered how very much faster snvrdump works on an http url over serf as compared to neon.

Kyle