git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

[Ewald, Robert]

Hello,

As I have reported yesterday on IRC, git-svn has problems with branches
containing spaces.
I get the following message, when I want to clone from the repository
containing a branch with a space.
Cloning until the revision the branch is created everything works fine.

fatal: refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix: cannot lock the ref
update-ref -m r1897 refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix
ff0819c8e9c97c24e9865bc868c503fd9b64f980: command returned error: 128

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

Robert Ewald

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Re: git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

[Gerrit Pape]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Ewald, Robert wrote:
> As I have reported yesterday on IRC, git-svn has problems with branches
> containing spaces.
> I get the following message, when I want to clone from the repository
> containing a branch with a space.
> Cloning until the revision the branch is created everything works fine.
> 
> fatal: refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix: cannot lock the ref
> update-ref -m r1897 refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix
> ff0819c8e9c97c24e9865bc868c503fd9b64f980: command returned error: 128
> 
> Thanks for your help.

Hi, the same problem has been reported some time ago through
 http://bugs.debian.org/430518

There's a patch attached to the report, but from a first glance, I don't
think it's the solution.

Thanks, Gerrit.

Re: git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

[Jan Hudec]

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:42:35 +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Ewald, Robert wrote:
> > As I have reported yesterday on IRC, git-svn has problems with branches
> > containing spaces.
> > I get the following message, when I want to clone from the repository
> > containing a branch with a space.
> > Cloning until the revision the branch is created everything works fine.
> > 
> > fatal: refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix: cannot lock the ref
> > update-ref -m r1897 refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix
> > ff0819c8e9c97c24e9865bc868c503fd9b64f980: command returned error: 128
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> Hi, the same problem has been reported some time ago through
>  http://bugs.debian.org/430518
> 
> There's a patch attached to the report, but from a first glance, I don't
> think it's the solution.

It depends on whether it's OK for git to have refs with funny characters in
them. If it is, than the patch would be a fix. If not, than the escaping the
patch removes needs to be added to all other places that have any business
with refs.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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Re: git-svn problems with branches containing spaces

[Eric Wong]

Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0200, Ewald, Robert wrote:
> > As I have reported yesterday on IRC, git-svn has problems with branches
> > containing spaces.
> > I get the following message, when I want to clone from the repository
> > containing a branch with a space.
> > Cloning until the revision the branch is created everything works fine.
> > 
> > fatal: refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix: cannot lock the ref
> > update-ref -m r1897 refs/remotes/Modbus Error Limit Fix
> > ff0819c8e9c97c24e9865bc868c503fd9b64f980: command returned error: 128
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> 
> Hi, the same problem has been reported some time ago through
>  http://bugs.debian.org/430518
> 
> There's a patch attached to the report, but from a first glance, I don't
> think it's the solution.

That patch is definitely not a correct solution.  If another branch came
along with the same name as an automatically renamed one, it would break
things badly.

I started working on a patch that allowed the user to interactively
specify replacement branch names, but never got around to finishing
it:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45651

-- 
Eric Wong