From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Escape file:// URL's to meet subversion SVN::Ra requirements
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:16:38 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab115eb531ab4229a3edb12670ca4179-mfwitten@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320372215-sup-8341@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
On 2011-11-04 02:11:49 GMT, Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from Eric Wong's message of Wed Nov 02 18:09:41 -0400 2011:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>> I don't have much time to help you fix it, but I got numerous errors
>> on SVN 1.6.x (svn 1.6.12). Can you make sure things continue to
>> work on 1.6 and earlier, also?
>
> Yes, it's a bit of a mess, I think. It looks as though the
> modification required within Git::SVN::Ra is going to negatively
> impact other code paths that interact with that package from the
> outside.
>
> For example, when doing git svn init --minimize-url ..., the minimized
> url is not escaped while the url is. The minimized url is used to
> strip off the head from the full url using a regex. This now breaks
> because of the escaping.
>
> Fixing this locally to the use of the minimized url let me move on
> farther but I then got another core dump.
>
>> Maybe just enable the escaping for file:// on >= SVN 1.7
>
> I think that it would be best if this change was only effective for
> 1.7.
>
> I wonder if all URL-ish objects should be (conditionally iff svn >=
> 1.7) subjected to escaping?
>
> This would require some restructuring and will take me a bit of time
> to work out as I need to familiarize myself with the code to a deeper
> level.
>
> Pointers welcomed. :)
This problem still exists. It should be fixed---preferably by the people
who built this apparently unwieldy contraption.
Sincerely,
Michael Witten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-16 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-02 16:38 (unknown), Ben Walton
2011-11-02 16:38 ` [PATCH] Escape file:// URL's to meet subversion SVN::Ra requirements Ben Walton
2011-11-02 18:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-02 19:05 ` Ben Walton
2011-11-02 22:09 ` Eric Wong
2011-11-04 2:11 ` Ben Walton
2011-11-04 6:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-16 20:16 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2011-12-17 8:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-17 9:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-17 23:48 ` Ben Walton
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