Re: git svn clone failure

> Lachlan Deck, 28.03.2009:
>> On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
>>
>>> Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just  
>>>> getting
>>>> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
>>>> ...
>>>> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
>>>> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
>>>
>>> Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?
>>
>> A few thousand out, yes.
>>
>>> I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,
>>> it
>>> doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
>>> though.
>>
>> Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://..
>> But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?
>
> At least I don't have more info about it except for this:
> I use Gentoo Linux and the git ebuild (I have the distribution package
> installed, but use the self-compiled git) says
>
>    "Per Gentoo bugs #223747, #238586, when subversion is built"
>    "with USE=dso, there may be weird crashes in git-svn. You"
>    "have been warned."
>
> I have subversion compiled with dso (Enable runtime module search),  
> it's
> enabled per default. And since it worked, I didn't change it. But it
> would be interesting to see, if this error has something to do with  
> it.
> Maybe I'll try it out.