# git-svn fails when svn.noMetaData is set

1 messages from 2010-12-07 to 2010-12-07. Participants: dclist@gmail.com.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25980

## dclist@gmail.com, 2010-12-07 02:24

Subject: git-svn fails when svn.noMetaData is set
Message-ID: <87bp4ytj50.fsf@invalid.clx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bp4ytj50.fsf%40invalid.clx

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Run on git version 1.7.3. Analyzed the source code using commit
0b0cd0e0a2.

Steps to reproduce
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1. Set svn.noMetaData to true globally.
2. Invoke git svn clone on an svn repository

What happens
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Fatal error: "Not a SCALAR reference at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1457"

What I expect to happen
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The clone to complete successfully

Analysis
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The problem seems to be line 1457, where the variable 'v' is
dereferenced and assigned a value --- $$v = $tmp ---- in combination
with line 118, where the value of the variable 'v' for the option
no-metadata is specified as a subroutine and, therefore, cannot be
assigned a value in the manner defined on line 1457. I believe the same
is true of other options that specify subroutines as their hash values.

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