Re: git-svn "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use" and skelta mode

[Copying dev@ because it's related to a known issue that we document
more loudly.]

On 06.07.2013 00:51, David Rothenberger wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this problem using command-line tools, but I was
> able to do a trace of git-svn when it is failing and it looks to me
> that the problem is in the order in which the SVN::Delta::Editor
> (svn_delta_editor_t) function are being called.
>
> The order I see is:
> 1. open_root
> 2. open_directory
> 3. add_file
> 4. apply_textdelta
> 5. add_file
> 6. apply_textdelta
>
> The git-svn code is expecting a close_file call before the add_file
> call in #5. It appears to me that the svn_delta_editor_t API [1]
> requires this close_file call. It looks to me like this is Issue
> #2932 [2].

Indeed it is.

And it is actually documented here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/api-errata/1.7/ra001.txt

and mentioned here:

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#svnrdump
In other words, this is a limitation of the Serf-based backend that has
been around since Subversion 1.4. I'm aware that it isn't documented as
well as it should be, but the bulk-mode workaround exists in part as a
workaround for that, effectively disabling the more efficient HTTPv2
protocol.

In the meantime, it might be a good idea to relax the restrictions in
git-svn to account for the way the HTTPv2 protocol works.

-- Brane

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