Re: [GSoC] Query regarding Microproject
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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 23, 2020, 19:31 UTC
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:49 AM Shanthanu <shanthanu.s.rai9@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I found the solution to my issue. The main error message I had got was
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> > Expected FS format between '1' and '6'; found format '7' at
> > {hidden}/git/perl/build/lib/Git/SVN.pm line 310.
> After some online searches, I found out that file system format 7
> was 'understood' by subversion 1.9 (Filesystem formats section in
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure).
> That's when I realized I was using version 1.9 of subversion.
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> When I downgraded to subversion 1.8 (which understands file format 6),
> all tests passed.Great!
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> So shouldn't the test file itself have mentioned (say as a comment at > the top > or in a separate README) that it was expecting subversion 1.8 or lesser on > the system? I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and by default the package manager > installs subversion 1.9.
It would be better if the test could be fixed to work with subversion 1.9. Otherwise the test could perhaps check the subversion version and run only if subversion is version 1.8 or lesser.
> This issue might also be present in other git-svn test files. (I haven't > checked > though, not sure how to run just git-svn tests)
Maybe with something like:
$ cd t $ prove --jobs 8 t91*-svn*.sh