# Breakage caused by 2fe403e7 git-svn.perl: workaround assertions in svn library 1.5.0

2 messages from 2008-07-09 to 2008-07-16. Participants: Kevin Ballard, SZEDER Gábor.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14362

## Kevin Ballard, 2008-07-09 00:41

Subject: Breakage caused by 2fe403e7 git-svn.perl: workaround assertions in svn library 1.5.0
Message-ID: <6583867F-ED86-4E3D-AE8B-39FB974C43D7@sb.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6583867F-ED86-4E3D-AE8B-39FB974C43D7%40sb.org

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Commit 2fe403e7 causes `git svn info` and `git svn info .` to break.

   Use of uninitialized value in localtime at /usr/local/libexec/git- 
core/git-svn line 4277.
   No such file or directory at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn  
line 897.

If it makes a difference, I have svn 1.4.4 installed, not svn 1.5.

-Kevin Ballard

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## SZEDER Gábor, 2008-07-16 13:45

Subject: Re: Breakage caused by 2fe403e7 git-svn.perl: workaround assertions in svn library 1.5.0
Message-ID: <20080716134510.GA6831@neumann>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080716134510.GA6831%40neumann
In-Reply-To: <6583867F-ED86-4E3D-AE8B-39FB974C43D7@sb.org>

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:41:48PM -0700, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> Commit 2fe403e7 causes `git svn info` and `git svn info .` to break.
>
>   Use of uninitialized value in localtime at /usr/local/libexec/git- 
> core/git-svn line 4277.
>   No such file or directory at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 
> 897.
>
> If it makes a difference, I have svn 1.4.4 installed, not svn 1.5.
the same problem here, except that I have svn v1.4.6.

The patch in question adds the following line to git-svn.perl's
canonicalize_path():

+       $path =~ s#^\.$##;

which makes an empty string from the path ".".  This is especially
unfortunate for 'git svn info', cmd_info() begins with

        my $path = canonicalize_path(shift or ".");

and from that point everything is ruined, but it boils out only when
it tries to actually open() the empty path.

Removing the mentioned line from canonicalize_path() does resolve this
issue on svn v1.4.6, but I'm afraid it will brake again on svn v1.5.

Gábor

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