Re: git svn clone failing

From: Vampire <vampire@masters-of-disaster.de>
Date: Feb 25, 2011, 00:44 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikA2iRWH8Bh16CmpFpACSOjCiqc3c9cU69Jduv3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1298587459.22431.19.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

I tried it with 1.6.3.3 and with a self-compiled version from latest git code.

2011/2/24 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>

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> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:21 +0100, Vampire wrote:
> > Hi Drew,
> >
> > SVN client is in version 1.6.5.
> > svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk .
> > works fine and without problem.
> > I guess it is in the phase of searching for history in other places in
> > the repository and there some place is accessed that is password
> > protected.
> > I did not contact the server admin as the normal svn client works fine
> > and so it seems to be a problem of git-svn, not of the SVN server.
> > Did you try the command I gave you and does it succeed for you? It is
> > a publicly available repository so you should be able to reproduce the
> > problem.
> >
> > Regards
> > Björn
>
> The error is reproducible, and I'm running a newer subversion client
> than you are. It definitely isn't making it through all of the revisions
> available before dying.
>
> .....
> Checked through r161300
> Checked through r161400
> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc
> /default' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5131
>
> I forgot to ask, which version git are you running? I am running 1.7.4
> on the machine I tried this (RHEL5 RPM, compiled locally).
>
> > 2011/2/18 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:24 +0100, Vampire wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to issue the following command:
> > >>
> > >> git svn clone --stdlayout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/ .
> > >>
> > >> But unfortunately this fails after some time with the message:
> > >>
> > >> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403
> > >> Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for
> > >> '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default' at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4354
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >> Björn
> > >
> > > Björn,
> > > Have you made sure your subversion client is up-to-date? Does this work
> > > as a plain svn clone? Have you contacted the server admin?
> > > Without context we cannot act on this.
> > >
>
> --
> -Drew Northup
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