Portable issue (remapping perl dll)

[Michael]

I'm working remotely as a client on a customers citrix server, using
msysgit portable 1.7.4 ('installed' there):
Cloning a SVN repository (even on the customers site and only
reachable from a citrix session) gives the following errors:

$ git svn clone -s http://path/to/customers/svnrep localdir
Initialized empty Git repository in path/to/localdir/.git/
path/to/remote/portablegit\bin\perl.exe: *** unable to remap path/to/
remote/portablegit\lib\perl
5\5.8.8\msys\auto\Cwd\Cwd.dll to same address as parent -- 0x27A0000
0 [main] perl 38732 sync_with_child: child 22748(0xA0) died
before initial
ization with status code 0x1

A problem analysis can be found here:

http://www.dont-panic.cc/capi/2007/10/29/git-svn-fails-with-fatal-error-unable-to-remap/
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/CygwinDllRemappingFailure

The limitations imposed by the citrix server policies prevent me from
installing any application. Portables are possible, but the remedy
described above, requires cygwin. I'm not aware of a portable version.
So, is there any otherway to handle this problem?

Michael

[Michael]

The rebase.exe, referenced in a similar discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/VSStoDvvuq0/5V1PVceyE6sJ

was able to solve my problem. Could this one be included in future portable versions of msysgit?

Michael

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

Done. In the future, it might be considerate to provide a tested patch to
fix your own issue.

Hth,
Johannes