Possible bug in git-svn

[Martin Eisenhardt <list-receive@mneisen.org>]

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Hello Eric,
hello list,

I came across what might just possibly be a bug in git-svn. My apologies if 
this was already handled somewhere on the list but I was not able to find 
this exact problem mentioned before.

Let's say I run a SVN repository at svn+ssh://svn@example.com/repos and have 
it set up as described at
	
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshtricks

In essence, there is only one user "svn" with access to the repository, and 
every developer has his/her public key in ~svn/.ssh/authorized_keys with a 
line like

command="svnserve -t --tunnel-user=harry -r /svn/" TYPE1 KEY1 
harry@example.com

This is desirable to limit the developers access to the repository; no shell, 
access restricted to svn's home directory.

Now let's assume that within this repository, there are several projects, so 
we have f.e. the following structure:

+-proj1-+-trunk
|       +-branches
|       +-tags
|
+-proj2-+-trunk
|       +-branches
|       +-tags
+-[more projects]

I have no problem setting up a local .git tracking such a project using

    $ git-svn init svn+ssh://svn@example.com/repos/proj1/trunk
    $ git-svn fetch

After having made local changes and commited them to git, I want to push them 
to the remote subversion repository:

    $ # do some work
    $ git-commit -a
    $ git-svn dcommit

The last command gives me (invariably):

    Couldn't find a repository: No repository found 
in 'svn+ssh://example.com/repos/proj1/trunk' at at /home/mneisen/bin/git-svn 
line 403

What is odd is that git-svn uses the URL-prefix svn+ssh://example.com/[...] 
instead of the correct svn+ssh://svn@example.com/[...], i.e., git-svn drops 
the user name.

This behavior is surprisingly inconsistent as git-svn uses the correct user 
name while fetching and stores it correctly in .git/config.

The server log contains the following lines:

May 12 18:18:50 [sshd] Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for mneisen from 
217.229.32.249 port 37685 ssh2
May 12 18:18:50 [sshd(pam_unix)] session opened for user mneisen by (uid=0)
May 12 18:18:51 [sshd(pam_unix)] session closed for user mneisen

which supports my suspicion that git-svn drops the user name for dcommit and 
uses the current account name instead.

A git repository on the same machine as the subversion repository is able to  
track the SVN repository, so it seems that my problems are directly related 
to the combination of git-svn and the svn+ssh transport of subversion.

If this an error on my part, please advise me how to solve it.

Kind regards
Martin Eisenhardt

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