git-svn dcommit fails because the repository name contains a space

Question

When attemping to git svn dcommit to a repository that has spaces in it's name, I get the following error:

Committing to http://svn.kuluvalley.com/Meet the Expert/trunk ...
http://svn.kuluvalley.com/Meet the Expert/trunk
Filesystem has no item: '/!svn/bc/7397/Meet' path not found at /usr/libexec/git-core/git svn line 592

It looks like git svn doesn't support directories with spaces in them.

Answer 1

I was able to work around the problem of git svn not working for repositories with spaces in them by patching git-svn.

I updated the url_path function to:

sub url_path { 
  my ($self, $path) = @_; 

  my $url = $self->{url} . '/' . $self->repo_path($path); 
  if ($self->{url} =~ m#^https?://#) { 
    $url =~ s!([^~a-zA-Z0-9_./-])!uc sprintf("%%%02x",ord($1))!eg; 
    $url =~ s!^(https?)%3A//!$1://!; 
  } 
  $url 
} 

For windows (x64) users, this function can be found in Editor.pm file, which is located in

{Git installation folder}\\mingw64\\share\\perl5\\site_perl\\Git\\SVN\\

This ensures that the spaces in the url are encoded correctly.

It seems to work for me, but hasn't been tested thoroughly.

Answer 2

I believe the problem with spaces is fixed in Git >= 1.8.0 (See: #786942 ).

So you should consider to upgrade it.

See GitHub Home page: https://github.com/git/git