Using git-svn over svn + SASL with encryption

Question

Is it possible to launch git-svn over svn + SASL with encryption?

I've got an error can't establish connection.

C:\a\trunk>git svn clone svn://url/trunk 
Initialized empty Git repository in c:/a/trunk/trunk/.git/ 
Authorization failed: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism at C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/libexec/git-core\git-svn line 2167

UPDATE The issue presents only under Windows.

UPDATE 2 The issue presents only with msysgit. If you'll install git via plain cygwin everything will works fine

are you able to access the URL using SVN directly? – Will Palmer Oct 07 '12 at 08:39 — Will Palmer, Oct 07 '12 at 08:39
Yes, as you see in my example (i.e. encryption using SASL) – FoxyBOA Oct 07 '12 at 08:50 — FoxyBOA, Oct 07 '12 at 08:50

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '14 at 06:04

As you mentioned in the comments, msysgit does not include (to this day) support for secure svnserve communication with SASL so using git (+ git-svn) on Cygwin seems the only available choice.

But what the previous tutorial doesn't reference, are the necessary libraries to make SASL work with plain git on cygwin. So you will need to also install this packages (all available from the cygwin setup):

perl-Authen-SASL
perl-Term-ReadKey
libsasl2_3 (*)

(*) Not quite sure this one is required but also installed this one and everything went smooth.

In order to clone a secured svn repo with SASL.

I am sure underneath the covers, these details were taken care of, but it was enough for me to install git and gitsvn in cygwin on Windows 10, then I was off to the races. — froggythefrog, Nov 01 '18 at 16:54

Using git-svn over svn + SASL with encryption

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