Re: git svn clone failing

From: Vampire <Vampire@Masters-of-Disaster.de>
To: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git svn clone failing
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 02:21:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTine4g7LyiXmE6zYpNs7aa2FfXYGUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikA2iRWH8Bh16CmpFpACSOjCiqc3c9cU69Jduv3@mail.gmail.com>

Any news on this one?

2011/2/25 Vampire <Vampire@masters-of-disaster.de>
>
> I tried it with 1.6.3.3 and with a self-compiled version from latest git code.
>
> 2011/2/24 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:21 +0100, Vampire wrote:
> > > Hi Drew,
> > >
> > > SVN client is in version 1.6.5.
> > > svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk .
> > > works fine and without problem.
> > > I guess it is in the phase of searching for history in other places in
> > > the repository and there some place is accessed that is password
> > > protected.
> > > I did not contact the server admin as the normal svn client works fine
> > > and so it seems to be a problem of git-svn, not of the SVN server.
> > > Did you try the command I gave you and does it succeed for you? It is
> > > a publicly available repository so you should be able to reproduce the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Björn
> >
> > The error is reproducible, and I'm running a newer subversion client
> > than you are. It definitely isn't making it through all of the revisions
> > available before dying.
> >
> > .....
> > Checked through r161300
> > Checked through r161400
> > RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc
> > /default' at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5131
> >
> > I forgot to ask, which version git are you running? I am running 1.7.4
> > on the machine I tried this (RHEL5 RPM, compiled locally).
> >
> > > 2011/2/18 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:24 +0100, Vampire wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm trying to issue the following command:
> > > >>
> > > >> git svn clone --stdlayout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/ .
> > > >>
> > > >> But unfortunately this fails after some time with the message:
> > > >>
> > > >> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403
> > > >> Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for
> > > >> '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default' at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4354
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards
> > > >> Björn
> > > >
> > > > Björn,
> > > > Have you made sure your subversion client is up-to-date? Does this work
> > > > as a plain svn clone? Have you contacted the server admin?
> > > > Without context we cannot act on this.
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > -Drew Northup
> > ________________________________________________
> > "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?"
> > -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59
> >