Re: git-svn does not seems to work with crlf convertion enabled.

["Peter Harris" <peter@peter.is-a-geek.org>]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:57:54PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Note that you will have to do your digging using msysGit (i.e. the
>> developer's pack, not the installer for plain Git), since git-svn will be
>> removed from the next official "Windows Git" release, due to lack of
>> fixers.
>
>  is there any other problem with git-svn on Windows than the CRLF
> issue? I couldn't find anything significant in the issue tracker.

The main problem currently is that git is Win32, and perl is Msys.
When perl asks git to read files from /tmp (a path that doesn't exist
outside Msys), it grinds to a screeching halt.

The quick and dirty fix is to convince git-svn to write temporary
files somewhere else (maybe by passing DIR => $ENV{GIT_DIR} to
File::Temp::tempname, but I've been too embarrassed to suggest that
publicly).

The correct fix is to switch the msysGit perl from Msys to Vanilla,
but I've been too lazy to finish that up (as the SVN modules quickly
descend into dependancy hell).

Peter Harris