From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: git-svn clone problem Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:41:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20090528024153.GH12914@mail.oracle.com> References: <20090527221601.GA12914@mail.oracle.com> <86d4c5e00905271911g58cccc1bwd4b881541db6f7a5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Deskin Miller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 28 04:42:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9VZq-0006Tu-3O for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 04:42:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755531AbZE1Cmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 22:42:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755469AbZE1Cmc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 22:42:32 -0400 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:33469 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752248AbZE1Cmb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 22:42:31 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4S2h7JD031241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 28 May 2009 02:43:08 GMT Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4S2hGF1013507; Thu, 28 May 2009 02:43:16 GMT Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com by acsmt357.oracle.com with ESMTP id 17351749181243478500; Wed, 27 May 2009 21:41:40 -0500 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9VYq-000159-HJ; Wed, 27 May 2009 19:41:40 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86d4c5e00905271911g58cccc1bwd4b881541db6f7a5@mail.gmail.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010204.4A1DFA13.023A:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:11:01PM -0700, Deskin Miller wrote: > The problem here isn't with git-svn; rather, it is with the svn > repository at oss.oracle.com claiming a nonsensical UUID. svn uses > UUIDs behind the scenes to identify each repository, and git-svn does > the same thing. When doing git svn init (or clone, which is just init > && fetch) the svn server sends back a UUID which identifies it. When > I use wireshark and expand the first HTTP packet back from a good svn > server, I see something like the following embedded in the xml tree: > > > 612f8ebc-c883-4be0-9ee0-a4e9ef946e3a > > > However when I do the same with oss.oracle.com I see > > > ????????-????-????-????-???????????? > > > git-svn tries to play along for a while, but the bottom line is that a > string of question marks isn't a UUID. > > There's more about svn's use of UUIDs in the svn book. Perhaps the > admin of oss.oracle.com can correct this UUID problem so one can use > git-svn with this repository. Is this some new feature of svn that git-svn has decided to require? We're running subversion 1.4.4 there, and git-svn used to work against those repos. Hmm, it's only a couple of very old repos with this problem - they were probably created with subversion 1.1 or 1.0. I found how to fix it. Thanks. Joel -- "People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127