Subject: Re: git svn clone - Malformed network data: The XML response contains invalid XML: Malformed XML: no element found at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 312

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:40:34 +0000

Jason Pyeron <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> I am asuming that this is an issue caused by codeplex's svn
> from tfs implementation. Does anyone here have any insight?

Seems like it, even using svn(1) fails (see below)

> r27599 = 9e769d8327767a155d7b96b7cc28579cf0ed4c93 (refs/remotes/git-svn)
> Malformed network data: The XML response contains invalid XML: Malformed XML: no element found at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 312.

OK, so lets find out what the next commit is after r27599:

  svn log -v -r 27599:HEAD https://smtp4dev.svn.codeplex.com/svn

  # which tells me r27864

  svn diff -r 27599:27864 https://smtp4dev.svn.codeplex.com/svn
  # which tells me:
  svn: E130003: The XML response contains invalid XML

strace only shows encrypted data, so maybe there's a flag or
debug option you can enable in SVN itself to see what was in the
bad XML or maybe contact the admin to see if it can be fixed.