From: Steven Scott <steven@codemettle.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:26:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-svn fails to rename files with %20 in filename
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=kemr2dPGeE6Z+RDUgrrB8wHE1nM4Zte0EvYMO@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1298283144.2772.7.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone accidentally checked some files containing "%20" in their names
> into our svn repository, which is accessed with either svn or git-svn
> depending on the developer.
> When I attempted to correct this by renaming the file, I received (on
> dcommit):
> Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 1, path
> '/theBeginningOfTheOriginalFileName theRestOfTheOriginalFilename'
> at /home/wpalmer/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 576

This is the same issue I've been seeing (except that the %20 is in a
parent directory on the SVN server). It makes using git-svn fraught
with danger, since I never know when I'm going to be unable to checkin
days' worth of git commits.

-- 
Steven Scott