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

From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
Date: Jul 5, 2013, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <kr7beq$ilk$1@ger.gmane.org>

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.

I think this is related to skelta mode [1] with serf. When I add "SVNAllowBulkUpdates Prefer" to mod_dav configuration, the error goes away. (Similarly, if I add "http-bulk-updates = yes" to ~/.subversion/servers.)

The server is running WanDisco's 1.8.0 distribution on 64-bit Debian 7.0. The client is Cygwin: svn version 1.8.0 and git version 1.8.3.2.

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.

[1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#serf-skelta-default

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