Re: git svn info --url lacks username

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: May 17, 2011, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTik1n8SCVu1-EwVrhJ7rURtk16eA9A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinCx4pEycjGmWA=jZ8os7R3tZWXNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 14:13, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

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> I'm using git-svn. Due to local policies and for compatibility with the other
> developers using plain svn, I have to lock a file before committing anything to
> the svn repository.
>
> Hence I wrote a small wrapper script around "git svn dcommit", which basically
> does:
>
> | SVNROOT=$( ( cd ./$(git rev-parse --show-cdup) && git svn info --url ) )
> | SVNLOCKFILE=$SVNROOT/lockfile
> |
> | svn lock $SVNLOCKFILE
> | git svn dcommit $*
> | svn unlock $SVNLOCKFILE

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> My .git/config has
>
> | [svn-remote "svn"]
> |         url = svn+ssh://user@server/project
>
> But "git svn info --url" only prints:
>
> | svn+ssh://server/project/sub/branches/branch
>
> i.e. the username part is missing.
> Obviously "git svn dcommit" does use the correct URL.

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> I tried, "git config --get svn-remote.svn.url", but that only gives me
> "svn+ssh://user@server/project", i.e. it lacks the "/sub/branches/branch" part.
>
> Do you have any idea what's going on, or how to fix it?
> Shouldn't "git svn info --url" include the username?

I ended up adding:

| SVNURL=$(git config --get svn-remote.svn.url)
| case $SVNURL in svn+ssh://*@*)
|         SVNROOT=${SVNURL%%@*}@${SVNROOT#svn+ssh://}
|         ;;
| esac

so it hacks in the username from the config file. But I don't think that's the ideal solution?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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