http://bugs.gentoo.org/233550 reopened. In my opinion it is complete nonsense to cripple git if the subversion use flag is not set (what is the case by default). I just stumbled over this when I tried to convert my svn repos to git. For many users this is one of the first use cases after installing git. Unfortunately USE="subversion" emerge dev-util/git does not solve the problem since emerge fails with the excuse emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-util/subversion[-dso]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-util/subversion-1.6.5 (Change USE: -dso) (dependency required by "dev-util/git-1.6.4.4" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-util/git" [argument]) This is use flag hell.
It doesn't fail, it tells you what you should do - reemerge subversion with -dso useflag. The reason is in the ebuild: bug 223747 and bug 238586.
The emerge with -dso is already running. I hope this won't break other things. However, it is quite surprising that git-svn does not work even though subversion is present on my system.
You can use /etc/portage/package.use to enable the subversion USE flag for git, or you could enable it globally in /etc/make.conf. You can use the same methods for disabling the dso USE flag for subversion so that git-svn will work. Note that the fact that subversion is installed doesn't matter as in gentooland these things are configurable and not arbitrarily determined at install-time. I consider this bug a request to make the subversion USE flag enabled by default, which is why I'm reassigning to maintainer to decide instead of closing.
Fine. Please check if the use flag is really required for git(-svn) >= 1.6.4.4. I'm not a Linux expert but # ldd /usr/bin/git shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7ef0000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ed5000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7d87000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d6f000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7c32000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7c2e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef1000) (emerged with USE="subversion") shows no obvious dependency to svn for me.
Last time we had Subversion enabled by default in Git, lots more people complained. Adding USE=subversion on your end gets me less complaints than all the people adding USE=-subversion to it. Lastly, just enabling a feature because a dependency is present on your system is strongly frown against in Gentoo, because in that there is no way to disable building against that dependency.
