# A bug with "git svn show-externals"

2 messages from 2016-10-26 to 2016-10-26. Participants: Tao Peng, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44374

## Tao Peng, 2016-10-25 23:53

Subject: A bug with "git svn show-externals"
Message-ID: <B8D25850-A4DE-435C-A856-240D612D59DA@me.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/B8D25850-A4DE-435C-A856-240D612D59DA%40me.com

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Hi there,

I met a bug of the "git svn show-externals” command.  If a subdirectory item has a svn:externals property, and the format of the property is “URL first, then the local path”, running "git svn show-externals” command at the root level will result in an unusable output.

Example:
$ svn pg svn:externals svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/ref/English.lproj/
svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings

$ git svn show-externals
# /English.lproj/
/English.lproj/svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings


This bug is preventing my script from correctly finishing the svn-to-git repo migration work. Does anyone know a workaround to this bug?

Thanks,
Peng
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## Eric Wong, 2016-10-26 19:10

Subject: Re: A bug with "git svn show-externals"
Message-ID: <20161026191023.GA24666@starla>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161026191023.GA24666%40starla
In-Reply-To: <B8D25850-A4DE-435C-A856-240D612D59DA@me.com>

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Tao Peng <pengtao@me.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I met a bug of the "git svn show-externals” command.  If a subdirectory item has a svn:externals property, and the format of the property is “URL first, then the local path”, running "git svn show-externals” command at the root level will result in an unusable output.
> 
> Example:
> $ svn pg svn:externals svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/ref/English.lproj/
> svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings

+Cc Vineet who originally implemented this 9 years ago

I've never used externals much, but I guess it's common for
externals to be a full URL and not merely a relative path
to somewhere within the same SVN repo.

> $ git svn show-externals
> # /English.lproj/
> /English.lproj/svn+ssh://src.foo.com/svn/orig/trunk/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings Localizable.strings

> 
> This bug is preventing my script from correctly finishing the svn-to-git repo migration work. Does anyone know a workaround to this bug?

Can you try the following change to ignore path prefixing for
full URLs?

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 4d41d22..ced665a 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -1303,7 +1303,9 @@ sub cmd_show_externals {
 		my $s = $props->{'svn:externals'} or return;
 		$s =~ s/[\r\n]+/\n/g;
 		chomp $s;
-		$s =~ s#^#$path#gm;
+		if ($s !~ m#^[a-z\+]+://#i) {
+			$s =~ s#^#$path#gm;
+		}
 		print STDOUT "$s\n";
 	});
 }

```