Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc2

From: Mattias Nissler <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:16:58 +0200

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:22 -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
> Mattias Nissler <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Maybe we should rather try to detect whether we have read access to the
> > repository root and adjust behaviour accordingly? Or at least print a
> > warning when cloning restricted multi-branch repos, since this just
> > fails silently (doesn't pick up any branches) when you have minimize_url
> > enabled.
> 
> We actually try that in Git::SVN::Ra::minimize_url:
> 
> sub minimize_url {
> 	my ($self) = @_;
> 	return $self->{url} if ($self->{url} eq $self->{repos_root});
> 	my $url = $self->{repos_root};
> 	my @components = split(m!/!, $self->{svn_path});
> 	my $c = '';
> 	do {
> 		$url .= "/$c" if length $c;
> 		eval { (ref $self)->new($url)->get_latest_revnum };
> 	} while ($@ && ($c = shift @components));
> 	$url;
> }
> 
> Maybe get_latest_revnum() isn't strong enough of a check for
> certain setups and get_log() needs to be used instead?

Well, I simply wasn't aware of this. I've just retried and it turns out
latest git.git works perfectly for me in both restricted and
non-restricted setups. Great work!

Mattias