Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

[Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:46:06PM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote:
> > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the
> > / after the svn: leaving svn:/svn which isn't correct.  Using
> > 'svn://svn' doesn't help either.
> > 
> > (2) $ git svn init -T 'svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/code/trunk'
> > E: 'svn:/svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/code/trunk' is not a complete
> > URL  and a separate URL is not specified
> 
> I'm seeing the same behaviour on local builds of both v2.7.0 and v2.2.0,
> and when using http:// URIs as well as svn:// ones.  Very sad.
> 
> It's not immediately obvious what's going wrong here, and I don't
> currently have much spare time for digging, but I'll add it to my queue
> to investigate the problem / report it upstream to see if anyone else
> has any cunning ideas.

I've found a work-around.  I'm surprised it works, but it evidently
does, so...

If you do the `git svn init` without the `-T` argument, then set up the
branches to fetch explicitly using `git config`, everything seems to
work fine:

    $ git svn init svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/code
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/add/tmp/.git/

    $ git config svn-remote.svn.fetch trunk:refs/remotes/origin/trunk

    $ git svn fetch
    r1 = 12dc820c417dc5f12723307a3fcfa4629ea972fb (refs/remotes/origin/trunk)
            A       squirrelmail/ATHORS
            A       squirrelmail/login.php3
            A       squirrelmail/signout.php3
    ...

HTH

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