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When svn really hates you

nospam@example.com (Michael Gebetsroither) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:04:13 +0200

As my colleagues don't know either git or mercurial, we decided to use subversion for our collaboration. This was a big mistake as it seems.

We have a strict deadline to meet and the following is something you really don't want to read a few days before the deadline.

I'm normally using git-svn, but this time i have to check in quite a few files, so i thought about using svn directly.

And this is the result:

svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/eegs08/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/eegs08/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (https://svn.tugraz.at)

After that i can't commit new files anymore, nor checkout another revision.

Even a complete new checkout doesn't help:

% svn co

...
A    AG01/RaytracerG01/RaytracerG01/TokenCmdCreateDirLight.h
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/eegs08/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/eegs08/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (https://svn.tugraz.at)

and thats it, the repository is dead.

This is where git-svn comes in:

So i've just deleted this damn svn repository on the server and repopulated it with the default layout (trunk, tags, branches).

% mv repo repo~
% git svn clone -s <REPO> repo
% cd repo
% git fetch ../repo~ master:old
% git rebase master old
% git svn dcommit

After that i had a working repository on svn again :)!

Installing gitosis on debian

nospam@example.com (Michael Gebetsroither) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:18 +0200

ATTENTION:

current gitosis debian package does a chmod -R git:git /var/cache/git, if you allready have a git repository setup be c arefully! #473574

Install

apt-get update
apt-get install gitosis

This creates a user git with /var/cache/git as $HOME (which is also the default directory for git-daemon to serve). I've changed this to the normal /home/git as i want gitosis only for non-public projects.

Initialise

% su git
$ gitosis-init </tmp/id_rsa.pub 
Initialized empty Git repository in ./
Initialized empty Git repository in ./

Configure

% git clone git@localhost:gitosis-admin.git
% cd gitosis-admin

see gitosis documentation if you need further help on configuration or http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

Problems:

ssh git@localhost:
```
Mar 31 14:27:06 god sshd[27051]: User git not allowed because account is locked
```
If you encounter something like this then you should update your adduser packet because it is broken. #433639
Fix: change the ! in /etc/shadow in the line of your git user to *.
gitosis config is not updated after push:
```
chmod 755 $(readlink ~git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update)
```
The post-update hook is not executable and is a link on debian (#473613), the above should temporarily fix this.