Re: git-svn throwing assertion on old svn tracking branch

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
> hello guys,
> 
> it has been a while, i tried git in conjunction with svn... i got a nice
> history, when working with it. This Work is now a year old.
> 
> Now I wanted to get on working and got following error message while
> fetching from one specific svn tracking branch:
> 
> $ git-svn fetch -i svn_master
> perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/path.c:343: svn_path_remove_component: 
> Assertion `is_canonical(path->data, path->len)' failed.
> Aborted

I don't recall seeing that error before.

Are you using the command-line client or the perl SVN libraries?  If
you're using the command-line client, you may want to try:
rm -rf .git/svn/svn_master/tree && git-svn rebuild -i svn_master

> I checked the svn working copy, it is uptodate now (although i had to
> search for it, i havent been using this repository for one year...)

Does the directory you're tracking the the repository still
exist?  If it disappeared, git-svn could have some issues with it
(regardless of command-line or SVN libraries).

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