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git svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme

Subject: git svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme

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4 messages between Oct 5, 2008 and Oct 6, 2008.

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Jeff Kowalczyk· Oct 5, 2008, 17:24 UTC · lore

I made an ill-advised upgrade to from subversion-1.4.6 to subversion-1.5.2. While I had subversion-1.5.2 installed, git svn rebase ended with a 'segmentation fault' error.

Now back at subversion-1.4.6, git repositories with svn remotes updated during the aforentioned upgrade now give an error:

(master) $ git svn fetch Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://code.djangoproject.com/svn' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1400

(master) $ git svn rebase Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://code.djangoproject.com/svn' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1909

Others which were not updated recently work fine for git svn operations.

How can I repair the affected git repositories?

Thanks.

Mikael Magnusson· Oct 5, 2008, 19:44 UTC · re: Jeff Kowalczyk · lore

Re: git svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme

2008/10/5 Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com>:

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> I made an ill-advised upgrade to from subversion-1.4.6 to
> subversion-1.5.2. While I had subversion-1.5.2 installed, git svn rebase
> ended with a 'segmentation fault' error.
>
> Now back at subversion-1.4.6, git repositories with svn remotes updated
> during the aforentioned upgrade now give an error:
>
> (master) $ git svn fetch
> Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://code.djangoproject.com/svn' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1400
>
> (master) $ git svn rebase
> Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'http://code.djangoproject.com/svn' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1909
>
> Others which were not updated recently work fine for git svn operations.
>
> How can I repair the affected git repositories?
>
> Thanks.

That somehow looks more like an svn error than a git error, does svn checkout http://code.djangoproject.com/svn work?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Jeff Kowalczyk· Oct 6, 2008, 02:28 UTC · re: Mikael Magnusson · lore

Re: git svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme

Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> That somehow looks more like an svn error than a git error, does
> svn checkout http://code.djangoproject.com/svn work?

You were correct, I tried subversion and got the same error. I rebuilt (gentoo ~x86) neon-0.28.3, subversion-1.5.2 and git-1.6.0.2, and have functional git svn operations.

However, each operation ends with a segmentation fault. This is the case with all git svn repositories (e.g. several different svn remote hosts).

  (master) $ git svn rebase
     M  django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py
     M  docs/topics/i18n.txt
  r9155 = 4c86e60f62366ac9c3fd9369c17c54801a8f2ea0 (trunk)
  First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
  Fast-forwarded master to refs/remotes/trunk.
  Segmentation fault

Does the segfault risk corruption of the git repository data?

Would I report this as a git bug or distribution bug?

Thanks.

Thomas Rast· Oct 6, 2008, 09:47 UTC · re: Jeff Kowalczyk · lore

Re: git svn: Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme

Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:

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> However, each operation ends with a segmentation fault. This is the case
> with all git svn repositories (e.g. several different svn remote hosts).
> 
>   (master) $ git svn rebase
>      M  django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py
>      M  docs/topics/i18n.txt
>   r9155 = 4c86e60f62366ac9c3fd9369c17c54801a8f2ea0 (trunk)
>   First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
>   Fast-forwarded master to refs/remotes/trunk.
>   Segmentation fault

Can you try to find out what exactly segfaults here? git-svn is implemented in Perl, so that means it's either Perl itself (unlikely), the SVN libraries hooked into Perl, or some git command run by git-svn.

- Thomas

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Thomas Rast
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