`pip freeze` fails on git-svn projects

[vbabiy]

i have many projects checked out from a Subversion repo using git-svn and installed via pip -E /path/to/my/env install -e .. this works great except when i want to do a pip freeze:

#!Bash

$ pip -E /path/to/my/env freeze                              
Exception:                                                                           
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                   
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 130, in main                                                                 
    self.run(options, args)                                                          
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/commands/freeze.py", line 68, in run                                                               
    req = pip.FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, dependency_links, find_tags=find_tags)                                                                                    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 141, in from_dist                                                               
    req = get_src_requirement(dist, location, find_tags)                             
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/__init__.py", line 236, in get_src_requirement                                                 
    return version_control().get_src_requirement(dist, location, find_tags)          
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 230, in get_src_requirement                                               
    repo = self.get_url(location)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/subversion.py", line 189, in get_url
    f = open(os.path.join(location, self.dirname, 'entries'))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/path/to/some/project/.svn/entries'

(file paths replaced with dummies)

it seems that pip is incorrectly treating the projects as Subversion projects, whereas they are actually (locally) Git projects.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/183
• Originally Reported By:
• Originally Created At: 2010-11-02 19:09:00

[vbabiy]

more recently, i get this instead:

$ pip -E /path/to/my/env freeze

Command /usr/bin/git config remote.origin.url failed with error code 1

Storing complete log in /path/to/my/home/.pip/pip.log

$ cat /path/to/my/home/.pip/pip.log

------------------------------------------------------------

/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/runner.py

run on Fri Dec 17 15:07:59 2010

Found command 'git' at '/usr/bin/git'

Running command /usr/bin/git config remote.origin.url

Command /usr/bin/git config remote.origin.url failed with error code 1

Exception information:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 130, in main

    self.run(options, args)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/commands/freeze.py", line 68, in run

    req = pip.FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, dependency_links,

find_tags=find_tags)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/init.py", line 141, in from_dist

    req = get_src_requirement(dist, location, find_tags)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/init.py", line 238, in get_src_requirement

    return version_control().get_src_requirement(dist, location,

find_tags)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/git.py", line 149, in get_src_requirement

    repo = self.get_url(location)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/vcs/git.py", line 114, in get_url

    show_stdout=False, cwd=location)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-

packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.6.egg/pip/init.py", line 249, in call_subprocess

    % (command_desc, proc.returncode))

InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/git config remote.origin.url failed

with error code 1

now it looks like pip recognizes the projects as Git projects, but it seems to expect a non-empty list of remotes. not having any remotes is normal even in Git projects that aren't git-svn projects, but it is especially typical of git-svn projects. if pip really wants the git-svn origin repo, perhaps it should parse the output of git svn info.

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Original Comment By: Anonymous

[razamatan]

i think a fix would be to issue this command on git repos that are recognized as git svn checkouts to fetch the url:

git config svn-remote.svn.url

in the interim, i got around this issue by "creating" the origin remote branch by spoofing things to point to the checkout itself.

(from the repo root) git remote add origin .

[gregglind]

Anyone assigned to this yet? What is it that pip wants out of this info? I would be happy to work on it once I grok why pip cares what the remotes are!

[razamatan]

i don't think anyone is assigned. the basic idea is that pip wants a url for the checkout, and the current way of doing it is fragile when having a git-svn repo. i suggested other git commands that would return a url in a non-fragile way (i think). i'm by no means a git expert, so consider my suggestions as just that... a suggestion an d not a fix.

[dstufft]

Closing this. It's had no activity in 6 years and I believe the trigger for this is esoteric enough that it doesn't make sense to try and support it.