Bug 170949 – Steps on https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit do not work with https remote

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Lucas Forschler]

I'm following the steps here, to track an https svn remote.
https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit

1. git clone https://git.webkit.org/git/WebKit.git WebKit
2. cd WebKit
3. git svn init --prefix=origin/ -T trunk https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit   # note update to https
4. git config --replace svn-remote.svn.fetch trunk:refs/remotes/origin/master
5. git svn fetch

This step proceeds to delete a bunch of things, and then errors out with:
Last fetched revision of refs/remotes/origin/master was r215362, but we are about to fetch: r1!

rc: 1

[Lucas Forschler]

git --version
git version 2.11.0 (Apple Git-80)

[Lucas Forschler]

note: these steps seem to work when using http remote... but it then fails with:

Bad file descriptor at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/../Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN/Ra.pm line 623.

rc: 1

[Lucas Forschler]

r215462 = c011569fefb1647b7f29ec786f8143c3335c466d (refs/remotes/origin/master)
Bad file descriptor at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/../Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN/Ra.pm line 623.

rc: 1

But, running it again seems to complete... strange.

@lforschler-mbp:/Volumes/Data/src/WebKit-test $ git svn fetch
	A	LayoutTests/fast/css-grid-layout/grid-gutters-as-percentage-expected.txt
	A	LayoutTests/fast/css-grid-layout/grid-gutters-as-percentage.html
	M	LayoutTests/fast/css-grid-layout/grid-gutters-get-set-expected.txt
	M	LayoutTests/fast/css-grid-layout/grid-gutters-get-set.html
	M	LayoutTests/ChangeLog
	M	Source/WebCore/css/parser/CSSPropertyParser.cpp
	M	Source/WebCore/rendering/GridTrackSizingAlgorithm.cpp
	M	Source/WebCore/rendering/GridTrackSizingAlgorithm.h
	M	Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderGrid.cpp
	M	Source/WebCore/ChangeLog
r215463 = 218bea977ce2e27ba02c472959f8f9b6fd5f4fdc (refs/remotes/origin/master)
	M	LayoutTests/platform/mac-wk1/TestExpectations
	M	LayoutTests/ChangeLog
r215464 = 59f5f25ea890844905db1467ba2043e12a3e132b (refs/remotes/origin/master)
	M	Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp
	M	Source/WebCore/ChangeLog
r215465 = c1f7fc622883ba2419bfd4998b3b11772e019c3b (refs/remotes/origin/master)
	M	Source/JavaScriptCore/dfg/DFGByteCodeParser.cpp
	M	Source/JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog
r215466 = 430ede9cabcb2750b2ac0e006cf423042bb6c6b2 (refs/remotes/origin/master)

[Lucas Forschler]

still with http remote, git svn rebase then fails:

git svn rebase -l
Source/ThirdParty/libwebrtc/Source/third_party/jsoncpp/source/makefiles/vs71/jsoncpp.sln: needs update
Source/ThirdParty/libwebrtc/Source/third_party/jsoncpp/source/makefiles/vs71/jsontest.vcproj: needs update
Source/ThirdParty/libwebrtc/Source/third_party/jsoncpp/source/makefiles/vs71/lib_json.vcproj: needs update
Source/ThirdParty/libwebrtc/Source/third_party/jsoncpp/source/makefiles/vs71/test_lib_json.vcproj: needs update
update-index --refresh: command returned error: 1

rc: 1

[Kocsen Chung]

The current git remote used for initial cloning (https://git.webkit.org/git/WebKit.git) has the `git-svn-id` set to the http SVN remote.

In order to change the SVN remote we need to follow the git-svn equivalent of an svn-switch: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnSwitch

This effectively creates a new git-svn repo that points to the https SVN remote.

These steps, however, take an outstanding amount of time (days) on most consumer machines. Therefore we need to create this https-tracking git-svn repo and host it.