git svn - Unrecognized URL scheme error

Question

I\'m getting the following error on attempt to clone svn rep with git svn:

eugene$ git svn clone https://my.site/svn/ here
Initialized empty Git repository i         


        

Answer 1

This is probably related to incompability of SVN::Core perl library or XCode commandline tools update.

You can try to upgrade it locally:

cpan SVN::Core

or globally:

sudo cpan SVN::Core

or if you're using brew, try to install it via brew:

brew install --perl subversion
brew reinstall git

If it still doesn't work, please check our PERL5LIB variable:

echo $PERL5LIB

if it's set to something that you don't want, you can unset it for testing:

unset PERL5LIB

If that helps, find the file which is defined (e.g. ~/.profile) and remove it from there.

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If you've multiple perl libraries, you can specify PERL5LIB environment variable in your ~/.profile file, e.g.

export PERL5LIB="/Users/my_user/perl5/lib/perl5:/Library/Perl/5.16:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Perl/5.16"

Sometimes the problem simply lays in pointing PERL5LIB to the older version of perl library, e.g. 5.12 instead of 5.16.

The easy way to find your all instances of SVN::Core, you may try:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb # Only for the first time
locate Core.pm | grep Core.pm$

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