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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Shanthanu <shanthanu.s.rai9@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Query regarding Microproject
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:31:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3fAQyiXsO0w_uG6Oe8EfvkL6=ijUqHp4j8GD8A50Jo+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d676674d-7ab5-b476-8dbb-2b3323db2c89@gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:49 AM Shanthanu <shanthanu.s.rai9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found the solution to my issue. The main error message I had got was
>
> > Expected FS format between '1' and '6'; found format '7' at
> > {hidden}/git/perl/build/lib/Git/SVN.pm line 310.
> After some online searches, I found out that file system format 7
> was 'understood' by subversion 1.9 (Filesystem formats section in
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure).
> That's when I realized I was using version 1.9 of subversion.
>
> When I downgraded to subversion 1.8 (which understands file format 6),
> all tests passed.

Great!

> So shouldn't the test file itself have mentioned (say as a comment at
> the top
> or in a separate README) that it was expecting subversion 1.8 or lesser on
> the system? I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and by default the package manager
> installs subversion 1.9.

It would be better if the test could be fixed to work with subversion
1.9. Otherwise the test could perhaps check the subversion version and
run only if subversion is version 1.8 or lesser.

> This issue might also be present in other git-svn test files. (I haven't
> checked
> though, not sure how to run just git-svn tests)

Maybe with something like:

$ cd t
$ prove --jobs 8 t91*-svn*.sh

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20  6:37 [GSoC] Query regarding Microproject Shanthanu Rai
2020-03-20 13:41 ` Christian Couder
2020-03-20 16:27   ` Shanthanu
2020-03-21  9:49     ` Shanthanu
2020-03-23 19:31       ` Christian Couder [this message]
2020-03-25 13:51         ` Shanthanu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-03-05  8:05 [GSOC]:query regarding microproject Sushma Unnibhavi
2019-03-05 21:29 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-04  5:26 [GSoC] Query " Umang Parmar
2019-03-04  7:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-04  7:52   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-04  9:05     ` Christian Couder

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