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git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth

Subject: git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth

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D. Stuart Freeman· Dec 8, 2008, 20:54 UTC · lore

I'm trying to 'git svn clone https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt -s' that repo is setup to allow anonymous reading of that directory tree, but git-svn prompts me for a password. I think git-svn is traversing up the directory tree and encountering a directory that needs authn, can I prevent it from doing that?

-- 
D. Stuart Freeman
Georgia Institute of Technology

Junio C Hamano· Dec 8, 2008, 21:30 UTC · re: D. Stuart Freeman · lore

Re: git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth

"D. Stuart Freeman" <stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu> writes:

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> I'm trying to
> 'git svn clone https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt -s'
> that repo is setup to allow anonymous reading of that directory tree, but
> git-svn prompts me for a password.  I think git-svn is traversing up the
> directory tree and encountering a directory that needs authn, can I prevent
> it from doing that?

That sounds suspiciously similar to what I observed long time ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46361/focus=46558

And $gmane/47151 in the thread, aka dc43166 (git-svn: don't minimize-url when doing an init that tracks multiple paths, 2007-05-19), supposed to have fixed it.

Hmm...  Eric?

D. Stuart Freeman· Dec 8, 2008, 22:07 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth

In looking at the source of git-svn, I see:

' # there are currently some bugs that prevent multi-init/multi-fetch
  # setups from working well without this.
  $Git::SVN::_minimize_url = 1;'

I tried setting it to '0' and rerunning my clone. It no longer prompted for a password, but it still failed to clone anything.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:30:06PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "D. Stuart Freeman" <stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to
> > 'git svn clone https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt -s'
> > that repo is setup to allow anonymous reading of that directory tree, but
> > git-svn prompts me for a password.  I think git-svn is traversing up the
> > directory tree and encountering a directory that needs authn, can I prevent
> > it from doing that?
> 
> That sounds suspiciously similar to what I observed long time ago:
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46361/focus=46558
> 
> And $gmane/47151 in the thread, aka dc43166 (git-svn: don't minimize-url
> when doing an init that tracks multiple paths, 2007-05-19), supposed to
> have fixed it.
> 
> Hmm...  Eric?

-- 
D. Stuart Freeman
Georgia Institute of Technology

Eric Wong· Dec 8, 2008, 23:20 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: git-svn not working when parent of cloned dir requires auth

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "D. Stuart Freeman" <stuart.freeman@et.gatech.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to
> > 'git svn clone https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt -s'
> > that repo is setup to allow anonymous reading of that directory tree, but
> > git-svn prompts me for a password.  I think git-svn is traversing up the
> > directory tree and encountering a directory that needs authn, can I prevent
> > it from doing that?
> 
> That sounds suspiciously similar to what I observed long time ago:
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46361/focus=46558
> 
> And $gmane/47151 in the thread, aka dc43166 (git-svn: don't minimize-url
> when doing an init that tracks multiple paths, 2007-05-19), supposed to
> have fixed it.

There are some other auth issues that I'm not sure ever got resolved. The SVN path->branch mapping code is a mess and has needed a rework for a while... And I've gotten sick again this weekend. Tis the season...

Stuart:

For now, running the old style one-connection per-remote config may be the easiest way to go:

------------ in your .git/config: ---------
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt/trunk
        fetch = :refs/remotes/trunk
[svn-remote "bloatedGxtAndVanilla"]
        url = https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt/branches/bloatedGxtAndVanilla
        fetch = :refs/remotes/bloatedGxtAndVanilla
[svn-remote "pre-GXT"]
        url = https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/gradebook-gwt/branches/pre-GXT
        fetch = :refs/remotes/pre-GXT
-------------------------------------------

Then run "git-svn fetch -i $SVN_REMOTE" for each svn-remote

-- 
Eric Wong