git-svn: surprising behaviors/bugs?

I've been running git for most my stuff for some time now, and am really pleased with what it has to offer. However, all my coworkers aren't gitified yet, and therefore I sometimes have to work with svn. I've learned to appreciate git-svn for this, since it lets me utilize the strengths of git and still allows for my coworkers to think I use their svn setup. Thanks to all who contribute to this wonderful tools!

In my work with git-svn I have stumbled upon the following two unexpected behaviors. Basically, am I doing/understanding something wrong, or is this buggy behavior in git-svn? (I'm presently using git 1.5.3.6, but have been experiencing these things for a while.)

1.  I don't really like svn's committer info, so I got an authorsfile
set.  This works great when I'm fetching/dcommitting from the
top-directory in my git checkout (the one with .git in), however, if
I'm in a subdirectory the authorsfile doesn't kick in and I get the
svn commiter info.  This is not a big deal, but a bit surprising and
my history gets a bit ugly.

2.  My second problem involves getting the support in git-svn for tags
and branches to work.  Having a standard layout of the svn repository,
in this case
   /source/project/(trunk|branch|tags)
svn clone -s only works as expected sometimes.  Sometimes I only get
the revision history, not including any actual content (ie none files
of the files under control turns up in git) from the clone.  When I
get this problem I usually clone the trunk only, and add tags myself.
This is far from optimal, and also error prone.  Other times, the
clone works as expected and gives me the tags and branches and all the
content.

I think the problem occurs when I'm not the owner of the svn repository, and only have access (read/write) to the project/(trunk|branch|tag) part, and don't have any access at all to source. Ie, svn ls works for /source/project and /source/project/trunk etc, but not /source (where I returns 403 Forbidden access). All svn access is through a svn-server that I can't control myself.

I've had a quick look in git-svn.perl, but the code is to beyond my limited perl knowledge. I'd be happy to provide more details if anyone is interested in looking deeper into this. Any ideas or comments are greatly appreciated!

/Gustaf

Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@gmail.com> wrote:

I see you've already fixed that.  Thanks.

Any chance there's a BOFH at the other end playing around with permissions while you were testing?

I'll have to look into that some other time.

Does `svn log -v' work for /source/project ?

Am I correct in what you have is currently like this?

[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = http://domain/
	branches = source/project/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
	tags = source/project/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*
	fetch = source/project/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk

If so, can you change it to something like this?

[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = http://domain/source/project
	branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*
	tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*
	fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk

And see if that works all the time?

Thanks,

On Nov 29, 2007 9:10 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

Yes, it turned out to be easier than I thought. The fix indicates that other options are lost as well, but I don't know how to test for that or it would have been easier for others to verify the problem.

This time I think BOFH is innocent, unless for maybe setting up the SVN repository in a stupid way.

Would be great, thanks, let me know how I can help. I've tried to answer your questions about the setup below.

Works just fine.

I just made three different setups to get the same (problematic) project.

PLAIN TRUNK (works as expected, but lacks tags/branches)
git svn init https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt/tidefelt/source/shapes shapes.trunk
cd shapes.trunk
git svn fetch  # Now gives me the history of the trunk with all content
cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt/tidefelt/source/shapes/trunk
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn

WITH STANDARD LAYOUT (gets no content)
git svn init -s https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt/tidefelt/source/shapes shapes
cd shapes
git svn fetch  # No files present in any commit
cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt
        fetch = tidefelt/source/shapes/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
        branches = tidefelt/source/shapes/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
        tags = tidefelt/source/shapes/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

What seems to complicate things here, and that I didn't realize before, is that I have access to https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt (at least read), so if git-svn starts from the bottom and checks for premissions it will find this root directory.

WITH CHANGED STANDARD LAYOUT (retrieves neither content nor tags)
git svn init -s https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt/tidefelt/source/shapes shapes.fix
cd shapes.fix
# Edit .git/config
git svn fetch
cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://svn.isy.liu.se/rt/tidefelt/source/shapes
        fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
        branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*
        tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

The version where I make changes in .git/config file fails also for a project that I don't have any problems with just using the -s option. Do I have to do anything more than just change the config file?

All of the above git svn fetch complains a bit the first time with a message similar to:

W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175007):
HTTP Path Not Found: REPORT request failed on
'/rt/!svn/bc/100/tidefelt/source/shapes':
'/rt/!svn/bc/100/tidefelt/source/shapes' path not found

Please, let me know if there is any other information that would be useful.

/Gustaf