From: James Y Knight <jknight@itasoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:16:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: Fix the commit-url config to be the base url, just like the url config
Message-ID: <F8E6CFA4-79F6-41AC-8266-09B3B46C8520@itasoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110404215227.GA4224@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> $_commit_url is a user-specified parameter from the --commit-url switch.
> If they want to override it it's the user's perogative.  It's not the
> default and not commonly used.

In .git/config:

[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = http://hostname/svnrepo/
        commiturl = svn+ssh://hostname/svnrepo
        branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/origin/master

The commiturl configuration is necessary so that the canonical URL is the http:// url (which can be used for read-only access), but if you want to commit, you have to use svn+ssh. This is a fairly common way of setting up access to an svn repository, so I'm surprised to be the first one to hit this issue.

Without the patch, you need:
        commiturl = svn+ssh://hostname/svnrepo/trunk
which of course then doesn't allow you to commit to other branches.

James