This avoids the following failure with normal "get_dir" on newer versions of SVN (tested with SVN 1.8.8-1ubuntu3.1): Incorrect parameters given: Could not convert '%ld' into a number get_dir2 also has the potential to be more efficient by requesting less data. ref: <1414636504.45506.YahooMailBasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ref: <1414722617.89476.YahooMailBasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Sorry, waaay past my bed time. This version doesn't infinite loop on autoload or older SVN(*) (at least I hope it doesn't) perl/Git/SVN/Ra.pm | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN/Ra.pm b/perl/Git/SVN/Ra.pm index 82d6108..496f430 100644 --- a/perl/Git/SVN/Ra.pm +++ b/perl/Git/SVN/Ra.pm @@ -177,7 +177,17 @@ sub get_dir { } } my $pool = SVN::Pool->new; - my ($d, undef, $props) = $self->SUPER::get_dir($dir, $r, $pool); + my ($d, undef, $props); + + if (::compare_svn_version('1.4.0') >= 0) { + # n.b. in addition to being potentially more efficient, + # this works around what appears to be a bug in some + # SVN 1.8 versions + my $kind = 1; # SVN_DIRENT_KIND + ($d, undef, $props) = $self->get_dir2($dir, $r, $kind, $pool); + } else { + ($d, undef, $props) = $self->SUPER::get_dir($dir, $r, $pool); + } my %dirents = map { $_ => { kind => $d->{$_}->kind } } keys %$d; $pool->clear; if ($r != $cache->{r}) { -- EW -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html