Git SVN Setup
Install missing SVN packages
sudo apt-get install git-svn
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn
Credentials
In order for gitman
to interact with git svn
, it must be configured to store your SVN credentials (cached) for private repository access.
To test, trying cloning one of your private repositories:
$ git svn clone -r <rev> <repo>
Option 1: Enter manually credentials
If authentication realm is not already properly configured then Username and Password needs to be entered.
For example:
$ git svn clone -r HEAD http://my-svn-repo/trunk/MyDirectory
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Dev/MyDirectory/.git/
Authentication realm: <http://my-svn-repo:80> my-svn-repo repository access
Username: JohnDoe
Password for 'John Doe'
This credentials should be cached afterwards. For further information about caching credentials see here.
Option 2: Manually store Credentials
- Generate the MD5 hash of the realmstring of the repository provider.
- Create a file under /home/
/.subversion/auth/svn.simple, where the filename is the md5 hash. This is how git svn
will find the credentials when challenged. - The content of the file will have key value pairs as shown below:
K 8
passtype
V 6
simple
K 8
password
V <password character count>
<password>
K 15
svn:realmstring
V 50
<repo> <repo name>
K 8
username
V <username character count>
<username>
END
- Now both
git svn
andsvn
should be able to check out from the repo without asking for credentials.