# git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes

2 messages from 2006-02-20 to 2006-02-20. Participants: Martin Langhoff, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3401

## Martin Langhoff, 2006-02-20 07:24

Subject: git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes
Message-ID: <46a038f90602192324v7193f154od4ff6952a68c799d@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90602192324v7193f154od4ff6952a68c799d%40mail.gmail.com

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After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I
can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it
mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the
commits.

To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:

   git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
         'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'

The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email
address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really
doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is
so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if
I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.

Strange world, svn ;-)


martin

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## Eric Wong, 2006-02-20 19:22

Subject: Re: git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes
Message-ID: <20060220192225.GB18085@hand.yhbt.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060220192225.GB18085%40hand.yhbt.net
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90602192324v7193f154od4ff6952a68c799d@mail.gmail.com>

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I
> can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it
> mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the
> commits.
> 
> To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:
> 
>    git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
>          'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'
> 
> The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email
> address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

Logging in with the svn command-line client (svn ls <url>) be enough to
cache auth information for the SVN library (and therefore svnimport)?
Unless you've disabled it in your config, of course...

> svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really
> doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is
> so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if
> I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.
> 
> Strange world, svn ;-)

Hear, hear.  I always had to reread the manpage or look here for
examples on how to use it.  And then echo !! > .git/info/svnimport-cmd
after I was done using it so I wouldn't have to remember which command
switches I used.

Then I decided to write git-svn :>

-- 
Eric Wong

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