# fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'

2 messages from 2009-04-17 to 2009-04-17. Participants: Jean-Marie Gaillourdet, Dmitry Potapov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18912

## Jean-Marie Gaillourdet, 2009-04-17 08:08

Subject: fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
Message-ID: <loom.20090417T075701-666@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090417T075701-666%40post.gmane.org

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Hi,

I am not sure whether this is right place to post such question. 

I've been using git svn with different svn repositories for some time now. 
But I have one  repository with which a git svn clone always fails at the 
same revision. There  is no problem when using svn checkout on that 
repository. I do the following:

$ git svn clone https://....some_pivate_server:2443/svn/Foo/trunk/bar/

...
several hundered revisions are imported
...
r896 = 6a91d0d15864c174fe8d001e03c579d1968ab926 (git-svn)
	A	Uebungen/uebung08/README
r897 = c2d0e0f317b54575598c8d3067f26a558b202745 (git-svn)
fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
$

This is on OX 10.5.6 with
$svn --version
svn, version 1.6.1 (r37116)
   compiled Apr 13 2009, 18:48:29

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

$git --version
git version 1.6.2.2

I tried raising limits for the number of open files and user processes. But 
that did not change anything, it still fails at the same revision. Any 
pointer where to search  for the reason would be great.

Please CC to me any answer since I am not registered with this mailinglist.

Best regards,

Jean

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## Dmitry Potapov, 2009-04-17 16:36

Subject: Re: fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
Message-ID: <37fcd2780904170936w10dc2f41odd9d71a03ba9125a@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/37fcd2780904170936w10dc2f41odd9d71a03ba9125a%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090417T075701-666@post.gmane.org>

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
<jmg@gaillourdet.net> wrote:
>
> several hundered revisions are imported
> ...
> r896 = 6a91d0d15864c174fe8d001e03c579d1968ab926 (git-svn)
>        A       Uebungen/uebung08/README
> r897 = c2d0e0f317b54575598c8d3067f26a558b202745 (git-svn)
> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'

Sounds similar to

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/114925/focus=114957

but it is all what I know about it...

Dmitry

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