Re: git-svn - canonicalize: Assertion `*src != '/'' failed.

From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2013, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKRnqNLupBKdvkK-LCuO8a+cz00oJbCcjKDEV8FepV9xSOAJEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130826174242.GT4110@google.com>

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Bruce Korb wrote:
>
>> $ git svn --version
>> git-svn version 1.8.1.4 (svn 1.7.11)
>
> Hm.  Two ideas:
>
>  * Does 1.8.2 or newer work better?  (It contains v1.8.2-rc0~110^2,
>    "git-svn: do not escape certain characters in paths", 2013-01-17,
>    which at first glance looks unlikely to help but might be worth a
>    try.)
>
>  * Does "git svn clone file://$PWD/private-lustre-svn $PWD/private-lustre-git"
>    work?
>
> Ciao,
> Jonathan

I get different results:

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> $ git svn clone file://$PWD/private-lustre-svn $PWD/private-lustre-git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /u/bkorb/work/private-lustre-git/.git/
> Couldn't open a repository: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///u/bkorb/work/private-lustre-svn': \
> Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: Unable to open repository 'file:///u/bkorb/work/private-lustre-svn' \
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.2/Git/SVN.pm line 148.

That makes it look like I didn't get a proper copy of the SVN repo. Since the real repo lives behind a firewall through two ssh hops, getting what I need may require learning Subversion instead of using conversion and familiar tools.....

(I need to extract patch sets for three development branches so I can apply them to a lustre GIT repo.)