Re: A question about the error: svn_fspath__is_canonical

Because I'm on cygwin, that's a little intimidating to me.  I've never
compiled sources on cygwin.  Do you think it'll still work?

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Dan,

Dan Kaplan wrote:

quoted

My environment is probably different from most.  I'm using cygwin.
This makes it very difficult to use different versions of
git/svn/git-svn, but I'm interested in learning git more so I'm
willing to try whatever it takes.

$ git version
git version 1.8.3.4

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.8.5 (r1542147)
   compiled Nov 25 2013, 10:45:07 on x86_64-unknown-cygwin

You have three choices:

 A) upgrade git to latest "master"
 B) upgrade subversion to latest "trunk"
 C) downgrade subversion to a version before that bug was introduced

(A) is probably simplest.  E.g., something like the following should work:

  git clone https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git.git
  cd git
  make -j8
  make test; # optional, to verify that the git you built works ok
  export PATH=$(pwd)/bin-wrappers:$PATH

Now the updated git is in your $PATH and you can use it.

See INSTALL in the git source tree for more details.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

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Thanks,
Dan

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