> Hi folks,
>
> I used git-svn to clone the webgoat repository at GoogleCode. As
> mentioned at the time, for some bizarre reason, I ended up getting a
> directory with a space character in it.
>
> See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49179
>
> In order to get a checkout that looks the same as the SVN checkout, I
> had to use a command line like:
>
> git-svn clone -T "trunk/ webgoat"
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/
>
> Unfortunately, this results in git-svn-id metadata entries in the
> commits that look like:
>
> git-svn-id:
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webgoat@2
> 4033779f-a91e-0410-96ef-6bf7bf53c507
>
> (Should be all on one line). As you can see, the space has made it
> through into the git-svn-id. Which then breaks this pattern match in
> git-svn:extract_metadata:
>
> my ($url, $rev, $uuid) = ($id =~ /^git-svn-id:\s(\S+?)\@(\d+)
> \s([a-f\d\-]+)$/x);
>
> Unfortunately, hacking it to ignore the space doesn't help either, as I
> then get:
>
> [rdawes@lucas webgoat]$ git-svn --username=rogan.dawes dcommit
> ID = git-svn-id:
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webgoat@125
> 4033779f-a91e-0410-96ef-6bf7bf53c507
> ID = git-svn-id:
https://webgoat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webgoat@125
> 4033779f-a91e-0410-96ef-6bf7bf53c507
> RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/trunk/
> webgoat': PROPFIND of '/svn/trunk/ webgoat': 400 Bad Request
> (
https://webgoat.googlecode.com) at /home/rdawes/bin/git-svn line 406
>
> Which is entirely unsurprising, since I suspect that the URL was not
> being quoted/escaped correctly, and we were sending something like:
>
> PROPFIND /svn/trunk/ webgoat/ HTTP/1.0
>
> Which is clearly illegal, having an additional field.
>
> However, I tried encoding the space to %20, and got back to my original
> problem, i.e.
>
> Unable to determine upstream SVN information from HEAD history
>
> If I run "git-svn -n dcommit", however, it does print out a list of
> "diff-tree <sha>~1 <sha>" entries.
>
> At this point, I am pretty well stuck. Any suggestions would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rogan Dawes
