# git-svn {show,create}-ignore chokes upon subdirs

3 messages from 2008-05-27 to 2008-05-28. Participants: Nikolaus Schulz, Sam Vilain.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13692

## Nikolaus Schulz, 2008-05-27 16:20

Subject: git-svn {show,create}-ignore chokes upon subdirs
Message-ID: <20080527162002.GA21855@penelope.zusammrottung.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080527162002.GA21855%40penelope.zusammrottung.local

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Hi, 

when importing subversion repositories into git, git-svn show-ignore and
create-ignore choke when scanning project subdirectories.  For example,
with the sequence

 git-svn init -s http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/producingoss producingoss-git-svn
 cd producingoss-git-svn
 git-svn fetch
 git-svn create-ignore 

the last command prints this: 

 HTTP Path Not Found: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca': '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca' path not found at /home/nikolaus/nfs/nsbp/git/git/git-svn line 1897

Revision 1465 is the latest subversion revision of the project.  git-svn
create-ignore stages a correct .gitignore in the top level directory, then
aborts with the same error.  I have tested this with two svn projects, the
result is identical.  Bisecting suggested that this is broken since commit
01bdab84e31763a98206c31cf99b9dc3cb221356.

Nikolaus

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## Sam Vilain, 2008-05-28 08:34

Subject: Re: git-svn {show,create}-ignore chokes upon subdirs
Message-ID: <483D190F.4030101@vilain.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/483D190F.4030101%40vilain.net
In-Reply-To: <20080527162002.GA21855@penelope.zusammrottung.local>

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Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> when importing subversion repositories into git, git-svn show-ignore and
> create-ignore choke when scanning project subdirectories.  For example,
> with the sequence
> 
>  git-svn init -s http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/producingoss producingoss-git-svn
>  cd producingoss-git-svn
>  git-svn fetch
>  git-svn create-ignore 
> 
> the last command prints this: 
> 
>  HTTP Path Not Found: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca': '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca' path not found at /home/nikolaus/nfs/nsbp/git/git/git-svn line 1897
> 
> Revision 1465 is the latest subversion revision of the project.  git-svn
> create-ignore stages a correct .gitignore in the top level directory, then
> aborts with the same error.  I have tested this with two svn projects, the
> result is identical.  Bisecting suggested that this is broken since commit
> 01bdab84e31763a98206c31cf99b9dc3cb221356.

It helps to include the breaking change's details in the message in
reports like this.  Here it is:

From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Subject: git-svn: add a generic tree traversal to fetch SVN properties

    * git-svn.perl (&traverse_ignore): Remove.
    (&prop_walk): New.
    (&cmd_show_ignore): Use prop_walk.

[ew: This will ease the implementation of the `create-ignore',
     `propget', and `proplist' commands]

Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

As a side note, "svn:mergeinfo" is rapidly becoming an 'interesting'
property and should probably be added to the list.  However, I think it
probably needs to go somewhere like do_fetch; I'll follow-up separately
about that.

Sam.

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## Nikolaus Schulz, 2008-05-28 09:16

Subject: Re: git-svn {show,create}-ignore chokes upon subdirs
Message-ID: <20080528091633.GA3919@penelope.zusammrottung.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080528091633.GA3919%40penelope.zusammrottung.local
In-Reply-To: <483D190F.4030101@vilain.net>

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:34:23PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> >  git-svn init -s http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/producingoss producingoss-git-svn
> >  cd producingoss-git-svn
> >  git-svn fetch
> >  git-svn create-ignore 
> > 
> > the last command prints this: 
> > 
> >  HTTP Path Not Found: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca': '/repos/producingoss/!svn/bc/1465/ca' path not found at /home/nikolaus/nfs/nsbp/git/git/git-svn line 1897

[...]

> It helps to include the breaking change's details in the message in
> reports like this.  Here it is:
> 
> From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
> Subject: git-svn: add a generic tree traversal to fetch SVN properties
> 
>     * git-svn.perl (&traverse_ignore): Remove.
>     (&prop_walk): New.
>     (&cmd_show_ignore): Use prop_walk.
> 
> [ew: This will ease the implementation of the `create-ignore',
>      `propget', and `proplist' commands]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Thanks, I thought it could be considered chatter. :-)

It looks like the patch from Christian Engwer posted here yesterday[1] is a fix
for the described problem. 

> As a side note, "svn:mergeinfo" is rapidly becoming an 'interesting'
> property and should probably be added to the list.  

That's interesting, I wasn't aware they're finally tackling merge
tracking. 

Nikolaus

[1] see Gerrit Pape's message "[PATCH] git-svn fails in prop_walk if
    $self->{path} is not empty"
                                                                                   

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