Fwd: Error with git-svn pushing a rename

[Benjamin Pabst <benjamin.pabst85@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

I'm using git as a subversion client, which works great so far. But
today I tried to push back a rename to the subversion server, which
resulted in the following error:

perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:2489:
svn_fspath__skip_ancestor: Assertion
`svn_fspath__is_canonical(child_fspath)' failed.
error: git-svn died of signal 6

After searching the web I found a similar problem at stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17693255/git-svn-dcommit-fails-because-of-assertion-error-svn-fspath-is-canonicalchildj

So I tried to downgrade subversion (1.7.x) which didn't help. Then I
also tried to downgrade git (1.7.x) which resulted in a different
error:
'tempfile' can't be called as a method at
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Git.pm line 1042.

So I updated both packages to the current version:
$ git --version
git version 1.8.4.2

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.8.3 (r1516576)
   compiled Sep 13 2013, 00:34:15 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Copyright (C) 2013 The Apache Software Foundation.
This software consists of contributions made by many people;
see the NOTICE file for more information.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
  - using serf 1.3.1
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

But now I'm back at the first error. Just for completeness, the error
occurs on the following operation:
$ git svn dcommit
Committing to https://xxxxx ...
R xxxx/xxxx/SomeFile => xxxx/xxxx/SomeOtherFile
perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:2489:
svn_fspath__skip_ancestor: Assertion
`svn_fspath__is_canonical(child_fspath)' failed.
error: git-svn died of signal 6

Any ideas on handling this error?

Sorry for the (wrongly sent) first mail (incomplete).

Would be happy to hear from you.

Greetings
Ben