Re: git-svn "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use" and skelta mode

From: Kyle McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2013, 22:58 UTC
Message-ID: <E82AC74E-3294-415D-8E59-97DDD213B11A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <kr7beq$ilk$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Jul 5, 2013, at 13:48, David Rothenberger wrote:

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> I recently upgraded my Subversion server to 1.8.0 and started
> receiving the following error from "git svn fetch":
>
> Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /usr/lib/perl5/ 
> vendor_perl/5.10/Git.pm line 1024.
>
> This occurs only when using an http:// URL; svn:// URLs work fine.

[snip]

> The client is Cygwin: svn version 1.8.0 and git version
> 1.8.3.2.

The subversion 1.8 release has removed the neon library, all svn client http access now always goes through the serf library. If you put "http-library = serf" in the "[global]" section of the "~/.subversion/servers" file you will get the 'svn_delta' error with git-svn when running earlier versions of the svn client as well.

> I initially reported this to the subversion users mailing list, but
> was (not so politely) told to report this to the git-svn authors.
> I'm not so sure, since the problem goes away simply by downgrading
> the subversion-perl bindings back to 1.7.

That changes the default http client access back to neon which doesn't exhibit the problem. Adding "http-library = serf" as described above will make the problem reappear with the 1.7 subversion-perl bindings (and the 1.6 as well).

Kyle