A question about the error: svn_fspath__is_canonical

I found this mailing list thread discussing the problem I'm currently experiencing: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Fwd-Error-with-git-svn-pushing-a-rename-td7599382.html

Apparently a patch was submitted to fix this bug and I'm trying to figure out what version of what I need to fix this bug. The inability to rename a class is a pretty limiting.

My environment is probably different from most. I'm using cygwin. This makes it very difficult to use different versions of git/svn/git-svn, but I'm interested in learning git more so I'm willing to try whatever it takes.

$ git version git version 1.8.3.4

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.8.5 (r1542147)
   compiled Nov 25 2013, 10:45:07 on x86_64-unknown-cygwin

Copyright (C) 2013 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* 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.
  - using serf 1.3.3
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

Thanks for the help

-- Thanks, Dan

Hi Dan,

Dan Kaplan wrote:

You have three choices:

 A) upgrade git to latest "master"
 B) upgrade subversion to latest "trunk"
 C) downgrade subversion to a version before that bug was introduced

(A) is probably simplest.  E.g., something like the following should work:

  git clone https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git.git
  cd git
  make -j8
  make test; # optional, to verify that the git you built works ok
  export PATH=$(pwd)/bin-wrappers:$PATH

Now the updated git is in your $PATH and you can use it.

See INSTALL in the git source tree for more details.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

Because I'm on cygwin, that's a little intimidating to me. I've never compiled sources on cygwin. Do you think it'll still work?

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

Dan Kaplan wrote:

Yes, that's why I suggested it. ;-)

You might need to install the gcc-core, libcurl-devel, openssl-devel, and subversion-perl packages first.

Regards, Jonathan

On 2014-01-10 20.28, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Out of my head: You probably need to install even: make, expat-devel (or similar)

I had to convert every file from windows line endings to unix line endings with dos2unix (dos2unix was a separate install). I did that with this command: find . -type f | xargs dos2unix

I also had to install: libiconv, gettext, expat, gettext-devel, expat-devel

That got my make -j8 to run without error.

I then ran make test and it looked like most of the passed. I added it to my path and now my bug is fixed! Thanks for the help guys.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote: