git-svn on Windows (cygwin)
Update 2008-10-10: Often perl will not work due to memory-remapping problems. A solution can be found in my article about the issue.
What I really love about Git is the fact that it nicely integrates with existing Subversion repositories. At our company, we are using Subversion as our SCM, but I personally like Git more and I want to use it as a side tool for more flexible branching, merging, and for checking in versions I wouldn’t check in the shared repository.
Git is supplied with git-svn, which can import an existing SVN repository and also commit back to it. Under cygwin, you need to perform two additional steps for getting git-svn to work, otherwise it is likely to fail with “failed to include Error.pm”.
You need to download Error.pm from CPAN. You have to save it to <cygwin-dir>\lib\perl5\Error.pm
Voila! git-svn should work now.
I am Software Engineer and partly self-employed. I develop mainly for Windows on the Microsoft .NET platform, but also C++, Java, and sometimes Python and PHP for web applications. I also consider myself a Linux enthusiast. (
I’ve installed git in cygwin both from setup.exe and then from source. I have subversion-perl installed. I copied down Error.pm as described above. I ran ash rebaseall as described elsewhere.
git-svn is still nowhere to be found in cygwin.
I get “git-svn: command not found”
what am I doing wrong?
Hi,
verify if there is [cygwindir]\bin\git-svn available on your system. By default it should be installed together with the normal git package of cygwin.
Also try entering /bin/git-svn if it can be found. Other git operations are working?
Best regards,
Martin
I had git-svn in /usr/sbin/git-core, but rather than running it directly, I chose to run “git svn” using the /bin/git wrapper.
More details and issues I encountered:
http://soi.kd6.us/2008/10/07/so-i-installed-git-and-git-svn-on-cygwin/
kb
The command is not git-svn, its ‘git svn’. If you install what is above you should be able to get ‘git help svn’ to show you the man page for it.
wow. I knew I must’ve been doing something stupid!
looks like I do have “git svn” command available.
thanks for helping a noob guys!
@Tommy: well, basically git svn is just a wrapper for git-svn… but there could be PATH related issues I am not aware of.
Best regards,
Martin