Re: git-svn and googlecode.com?

On Tuesday 2007 June 05, Rogan Dawes wrote:

(Original) svn checkout http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webgoat

(Funny, the initial path component had a space in it?!)

I suspect that that is not the case.  The form of svn checkout is:

 svn checkout <url> <directory>

So your command is saying check out http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ 
to the local directory "webgoat".  That is to say - it doesn't have a space 
in it and in fact is nothing to do with the URL at all.

0 $ git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat"
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk =>
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA
layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/bc/100':
REPORT of '/svn/!svn/bc/100': 200 OK (https://webgoat.googlecode.com)
Path 'trunk/trunk/ webgoat' was probably deleted:

... which explains this error because there is no path "trunk/ webgoat".

However, the following command line does seem to work:

git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat" https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/

Oh dear; I'm surprised it worked as well as it did.  I just ran this command, 
which seemed to work well:

 $ git-svn clone -T trunk http://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/ webgoat-local

This clones webgoat.googlecode.com/svn to the local directory webgoat-local; 
you can change "webgoat-local" to anything you want, it's just naming the 
directory on your own computer.

If you're the maintainer then perhaps you will want to change "http" 
to "https" as well.

Note that I manually removed the "trunk" component from the URL. This
suggests that there is something missing in the automatic "Using higher
level" detection code.

I think there is no bug; it's simply a misunderstanding.  git-svn working 
wonderfully for me.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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