Re: Minimum required version of subversion for git-svn?

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

"Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
>> "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> With git 1.6.0.5 I was able to run git-svn with subversion 1.1.4 on
>>> RHEL4/i386 but with 1.6.0.6 and 1.6.1 the testsuite now fails in the new
>>> test t9104.10:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> With 1.6.1 I also see t9129.10-12 failing with subversion 1.1.4:
>>> * FAIL 10: ISO-8859-1 should match UTF-8 in svn
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> * failed 3 among 12 test(s)
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/git-1.6.1/t'
>>> make[2]: *** [t9129-git-svn-i18n-commitencoding.sh] Error 1
>>>
>>> I see in git-svn.perl that only SVN::Core 1.1.0 is required. Is it still
>>> the intention that git-svn should work with subversion 1.1.x?
>>>
>>> If you're going to bump the minimum requirement I would ask that you
>>> atleast keep 1.3.x as supported. This is the last release of subversion
>>> where RHEL3 can satisfy the dependencies out of the box and I've
>>> verified that the testsuite will pass with 1.3.2.
>>
>> It's still my intention that SVN 1.1.x is supported; but I haven't had
>> the chance to test those versions in a while.
>>
>> Can you rerun the tests that failed with "sh -x t91..." ?
>>
> I've run the tests from 1.6.1 with -v, sh -x and sh -x + -v and dumped  
> the results at http://jupiterrise.com/tmp
>
> You'll find results from one more test (t9106) which I didn't mention  
> and which is also giving me problems but only with rhel4/x86_64 and svn  
> 1.1.4. It should be noted that this test has never worked for me with  
> this config.

Thanks, I'll try to setup an environment that lets me test older
SVN builds over the weekend.

-- 
Eric Wong