Re: Proper URI for "svn clone" on a network share (Win32)

[John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:12:29AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-08-15 09:00, John Keeping wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:26:57PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > On 2013-08-14 12:49, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > > If it makes any difference, this is within a cmd.exe shell (with
> > > > $PATH set appropriately so git is being found).
> > > 
> > > Just a follow-up, I tried it within the "bash"ish shell included
> > > in the git install and got the same error regarding
> > > "/tmp/report.tmp".
> > 
> > It seems that report.tmp is something that SVN creates and for some
> > reason the svn on your system is trying to create it in a Unix style
> > temporary directory.
> > 
> > What happens if you export TMPDIR=C:/Windows/Temp before running
> > git-svn?
> 
> Still getting the same results.  I tried:
> 
> 1) cmd.exe with my local temp dir:
>  c:\temp> TEMPDIR=%TEMP%

This should be TMPDIR - note the missing 'E'!

You may also need to "export TMPDIR" but I don't know how cmd.exe
decides what environment variables to export to subprocesses.

>  c:\temp> git svn clone "file:///x:/path/to/repo/trunk/utils/project1"
> 
> 2) cmd.exe with the windows temp dir as you specify:
>  c:\temp> TEMPDIR=c:\windows\temp
>  c:\temp> git svn clone "file:///x:/path/to/repo/trunk/utils/project1"
> 
> 3) git's bash.exe with inline variable definition:
>  $ TEMPDIR=c:/Windows/Temp git svn clone "file:///x:/path/to/repo/trunk/utils/project1"
> 
> 4) git's bash.exe with exported variable:
>  $ export TEMPDIR=c:/Windows/Temp
>  $ git svn clone "file:///x:/path/to/repo/trunk/utils/project1"
> 
> All of them died with the complaint about "/tmp/report.tmp"
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion though.  At least we've determined one
> thing that *isn't* the issue ;-)