Subject: Re: git-svn+cygwin failed fetch

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:06:00 -0700

Russ Dill <[email-masked]> wrote:
> [...]/src $ mkdir foo
> [...]/src $ cd foo
> [...]/src/foo $ git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk
> https://www.[...].com/svn/foo/bar/bla
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> Using higher level of URL: https://www.[...].com/svn/foo/bar/bla =>
> https://www.[...].com/svn/foo
> 
> [...]/src/foo $ git-svn fetch
> config --get svn-remote.svn.url: command returned error: 1
> 
> [...]/src/foo $ git config --get svn-remote.svn.url
> https://www.[...].com/svn/foo

Sorry, I can't help here other than recommending a real UNIX with
fork + pipe + exec and all that fun stuff.

git-svn relies heavily[1] on both input and output pipes of the
safer-but-made-for-UNIX fork + pipe + exec(@list) variety, so I suspect
this is just the tip of the iceberg for Windows incompatibilies with
git-svn...

Maybe somebody can finally libify git? :)

[1] - probably more so than anything else in git

-- 
Eric Wong