From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:30:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth
Message-ID: <7v4p1e73tt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081208205418.GA16418@cetel-004-xx6.admin.gatech.edu>

"D. Stuart Freeman" <stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu> writes:

> I'm trying to
> 'git svn clone https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt -s'
> that repo is setup to allow anonymous reading of that directory tree, but
> git-svn prompts me for a password.  I think git-svn is traversing up the
> directory tree and encountering a directory that needs authn, can I prevent
> it from doing that?

That sounds suspiciously similar to what I observed long time ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46361/focus=46558

And $gmane/47151 in the thread, aka dc43166 (git-svn: don't minimize-url
when doing an init that tracks multiple paths, 2007-05-19), supposed to
have fixed it.

Hmm...  Eric?