# Problem with git-svn with limited SVN access 3 messages from 2011-11-09 to 2011-11-10. Participants: Antoine Bonavita, Thomas Rast. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28894 ## Antoine Bonavita, 2011-11-09 11:28 Subject: Problem with git-svn with limited SVN access Message-ID: <4EBA63CA.7000201@stickyadstv.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EBA63CA.7000201%40stickyadstv.com ``` Hello, I have a problem with a git-svn setup and although I spent most of yesterday googling for a solution but did not find any (see below for my failed attempts). I hope you guys here will be able to help me. I have limited access to a SVN repository with a "standard" layout. By limited, I mean that I am allowed only to access the folders "trunk", "branches/XXX" and "branches/YYY". *Attempt 1:* > git svn init svn://server/aaa/AAA -T trunk -b branches --username=UUU Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ Using higher level of URL: svn://server/aaa/AAA => svn://server/aaa > git svn fetch Error from SVN, (220001): Item is not readable: Item is not readable *Attempt 2:* > git svn init svn://server/aaa/AAA -T trunk -b branches --username=UUU --no-minimize-url Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ > git svn fetch W: Item is not readable: Item is not readable at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1782 Error from SVN, (220001): Item is not readable: Item is not readable *Attempt 3:* > git svn init svn://server/aaa/AAA -T trunk --username=UUU --no-minimize-url Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ > git svn fetch W: Item is not readable: Item is not readable at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1782 W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path '/AAA/trunk' W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories Read access denied for root of edit: Not authorized to open root of edit operation at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5131 *Attempt 4:* > git svn init -T svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk -b svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches --username=UUU --no-minimize-url Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ svn-remote.svn.url already set: svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk wanted to set to: svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches > git svn fetch W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path '/AAA/trunk' W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories ### stuff actually retrieved from SVN ..... r6035 = 6163cb28acff14d68f1b96869274b668405897a2 (refs/remotes/trunk) ..... Compressing objects: 100% (10751/10751), done. Writing objects: 100% (10886/10886), done. Total 10886 (delta 9331), reused 0 (delta 0) Checking out files: 100% (6002/6002), done. Checked out HEAD: svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk r27316 creating empty directory: lib/AAA/mp3gain/otherlang/help ... ### No line with any branch. So it looks like I managed to get the trunk but not the branches. *Attempt 5:* > git svn init -T svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk -b svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches --username=UUU --no-minimize-url Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ svn-remote.svn.url already set: svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk wanted to set to: svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches ### My .git/config looks like: [svn-remote "svn"] url = svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk fetch = :refs/remotes/trunk ### If I try to add one of the branches manually: branches = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/branches/XXX > git svn fetch One '*' is needed in glob: 'branches/XXX' *Attempt 6:* > git svn init -T svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk -b svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches --username=UUU --no-minimize-url Initialized empty Git repository in /home/.../.git/ svn-remote.svn.url already set: svn://server/aaa/AAA/trunk wanted to set to: svn://server/aaa/AAA/branches ### I put a glob instead of the branch name in git/.config: branches = branches/{XXX,YYY}:refs/remotes/branches/* > git svn fetch ... Counting objects: 10886, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (10751/10751), done. Writing objects: 100% (10886/10886), done. Total 10886 (delta 9330), reused 0 (delta 0) error: Untracked working tree file 'COPYRIGHT.txt' would be overwritten by merge. read-tree -m -u -v HEAD HEAD: command returned error: 128 ### Only refs/remotes/trunk checked out. No branch. At this point, I'm really lost and running out of ideas. If someone could help me with this, I would be very grateful. Please forgive me if I posted to the wrong mailing-list but I could not find a specific git-svn list. If there is such thing, please point me in the right direction. Thanks, Antoine. -- Antoine Bonavita (antoine@stickyadstv.com) Envoyé de mon PC. Moi je suis Fedora. ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2011-11-09 22:38 Subject: Re: Problem with git-svn with limited SVN access Message-ID: <201111092338.26164.trast@student.ethz.ch> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201111092338.26164.trast%40student.ethz.ch In-Reply-To: <4EBA63CA.7000201@stickyadstv.com> ``` Antoine Bonavita wrote: > ### If I try to add one of the branches manually: > branches = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/branches/XXX > > git svn fetch > One '*' is needed in glob: 'branches/XXX' I think having several fetch specs should do the trick, although I cannot easily test with actual permissions. You can start configuring the repo with git init git svn init svn://server/ -T trunk to get an initial layout. The .git/config will look like [svn-remote "svn"] url = svn://server/ fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk The clue is that the config says 'fetch', not 'trunk'. Much like with git remotes, you can add more fetch specs along the lines of fetch = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/svn/XXX or whatever layout you prefer. Please tell us whether that works even in the face of restrictions on branches/ itself :-) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch ``` ## Antoine Bonavita, 2011-11-10 08:36 Subject: Re: Problem with git-svn with limited SVN access Message-ID: <4EBB8D0D.3060004@stickyadstv.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EBB8D0D.3060004%40stickyadstv.com In-Reply-To: <201111092338.26164.trast@student.ethz.ch> ``` Thomas, Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at my problem. On 11/09/2011 11:38 PM, Thomas Rast wrote: > Antoine Bonavita wrote: >> ### If I try to add one of the branches manually: >> branches = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/branches/XXX >> > git svn fetch >> One '*' is needed in glob: 'branches/XXX' > > I think having several fetch specs should do the trick, although I > cannot easily test with actual permissions. > > You can start configuring the repo with > > git init > git svn init svn://server/ -T trunk > > to get an initial layout. The .git/config will look like > > [svn-remote "svn"] > url = svn://server/ > fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk > > The clue is that the config says 'fetch', not 'trunk'. Much like with > git remotes, you can add more fetch specs along the lines of > > fetch = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/svn/XXX > > or whatever layout you prefer. I did what you suggested. Now my .git/config looks like: [svn-remote "svn"] url = svn://server/aaa/AAA fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk fetch = branches/XXX:refs/remotes/svn/XXX and here is the result: > git svn fetch W: Item is not readable: Item is not readable at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1782 Error from SVN, (220001): Item is not readable: Item is not readable Any other idea ? Or is there a way to get more debug info from git-svn. May be it would give us some insight on what it is trying to do and failing to. Thanks, Antoine. > > Please tell us whether that works even in the face of restrictions on > branches/ itself :-) > -- Antoine Bonavita (antoine@stickyadstv.com) Envoyé de mon PC. Moi je suis Fedora. ```