Re: [BUG REPORT] git-svn fails to create branches if ssh+svn gets used as protocol.

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Florian Köberle <florian@fkoeberle.de> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I haven't seen a link to a bug tracker so I am sending this bug report
> to the mailing list, I hope it's okay.

Hi Florian,

The mailing list is the bug tracker here :)

> If you try to run
> $ git svn branch foo
> in a project using a svn+ssh url, you get the following error log:
> 
> Copying svn+ssh://example.org/svn/project/trunk at r1000 to
> svn+ssh://me@example.org/svn/project/branches/foo...
> Trying to use an unsupported feature: Source and dest appear not to be
> in the same repository (src: 'svn+ssh://example.org/svn/project/trunk';
> dst: 'svn+ssh://me@example.org/svn/project/branches/foo') at
> /home/florian/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 722
> 
> It fails as the username is missing in the source url. If you modify the
> git-svn script and add the username it works. The bug can be reproduced
> with git-svn version 1.6.5.7 (svn 1.5.1).

Thanks for the info, the following patch should help.

I rarely get around to testing against svn+ssh servers myself
(and they don't appear too common compared to http/https).

Let us know how it goes, thanks!

From b2bc7e330209659c20d02ee0ba3785f9f59fd0b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:40:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] git svn: branch/tag commands detect username in URLs

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
---
 git-svn.perl |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index dba0d12..650c9e5 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -663,7 +663,8 @@ sub cmd_branch {
 	}
 	$head ||= 'HEAD';
 
-	my ($src, $rev, undef, $gs) = working_head_info($head);
+	my (undef, $rev, undef, $gs) = working_head_info($head);
+	my $src = $gs->full_url;
 
 	my $remote = Git::SVN::read_all_remotes()->{$gs->{repo_id}};
 	my $allglobs = $remote->{ $_tag ? 'tags' : 'branches' };
-- 
Eric Wong