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I need git-svn to act as a Subversion v1.5+ client

Answer 1

+3 A:

You can run svn --version to confirm that versions match, but git svn uses perl svn bindings to actually work with svn, so wherever those are, git svn will pick them up. There isn't an svn install inside git svn.

Conclusion: You would need to update your svn installation to 1.5 to have git svn run as svn 1.5.

MikeSep 2010-03-18 23:03:17

Thank you for that clarification. Do you know how the perl svn bindings determine which svn to use?I have the stock, shipping version of Subversion from Mac OSX (10.5), located in `/usr/bin`, and that is v1.4.4; matching the version `git svn` is pointing to. However, I have v1.6.6 installed through Homebrew, located in `/usr/local/bin/`. My path is configured, and `which svn` points to the desired v1.6 `brew` version.Does the underlying perl binding have its own path resolution at runtime, or was it set when git was installed?

Ben Ward 2010-03-19 19:26:28

I would start by checking your `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` variable. It's possible that it is missing `/usr/local/lib`, which should be where the svn libraries that match your `/usr/local/bin/svn` are hiding. The `svn` executable itself might have hard-coded that path internally, but `git-svn` won't know where to pick up the libs -- it'll probably fall back to the older libraries in `/usr/lib` that would match `/usr/bin/svn`.

MikeSep 2010-03-19 23:53:02

Answer 2

+2 A:

I'm running git --version 1.6, and when I run git svn --version, I get git-svn version 1.6.5.

apple:mac-zfs alex$ git svn --version
git-svn version 1.6.6 (svn 1.6.5)
apple:.git alex$ git --version
git version 1.6.6
apple:mac-zfs alex$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
   compiled Oct 16 2009, 02:54:10

Is it possible that installing a later version of Git or SVN will help? My guess is the latter.

NB the /usr/bin/svn that I have comes from OSX 10.6.2, looks like in the com.apple.pkg.BSD package. It's possible that an older version of SVN is in 10.5.8; you can download a universal one from http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#osx

AlBlue 2010-03-18 23:04:03

Same here. I have svn 1.4.4 and git-svn reports svn version 1.4.4, too.

ZeissS 2010-03-18 23:35:27

Note: Git svn will search the Git path, which is compiled in and not part of the $PATH. So if you have a version elsewhere, I would simply remove the Apple provided one and install yours into /usr/bin, or set up a symlink from /use/bin to /use/local/bin.

AlBlue 2010-03-20 00:03:25

Thank you for clarifying about the git path rules, that unwraps a large part of the problem I'm having.

Ben Ward 2010-03-23 19:14:07

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