I got this error when trying to build a git repo from remote svn server, it seems many people encountered this with different cause. All the google results didn't work for me, I just fixed the error with fuzzy solution.
Error:
git svn fetch
W: Item is not readable at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/perl/Git/SVN.pm line 154.
Error from SVN, (220001): Item is not readable
Git svn does not use the svn credentials
It may be credential problem -- The .subversion folder cannot provide credential. See my answer, it may help.
The reason why git-svn does not use SVN is that it use the credentials stored at C:\Users\XXXX.subversion, which is created by git-svn but not SVN. In my case, Error from SVN, (220001): Item is not readable: Item is not readable also occur.
The solution is to move the credentials from SVN to git-svn:
- Use SVN to check out from server. Remember to save auth. This can create credentials for SVN. The files are stored at C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Subversion.
- Remove the .subversion folder which is under user directory C:\Users\XXXXX if it exists. And then copy the C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Subversion folder to C:\Users\XXXXX.
- Then rename it to .subversion. Since the name starts with a ".", you may need to rename it in cmd console with "rename" command.
- Finally, you can use git-svn clone.
That is due to lack of permission. On your SVN server open the "authz" file located at config directory of the repository. Add the following line to allow read-only access to every one:
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* = r
You may want to revoke the access after you finished the migration.
The key target is not git-svn but svn.
I checked the svn permission with command svn list and got permission denied error, then specified argument "--username myname" and "--config-dir ." for list command, after svn saved my svn config in somewhere, run the "git svn clone repo_url", it works!
I fixed this error by chance, here is my guess, git-svn invoked the svn command in its internal implementation from file "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/perl/Git/SVN.pm line 154", so svn must have sufficient permissions to checkout the repo.
I didn't find the exact answer, just share my code experience here.
Good luck!
I had a similar problem, but in my case it was not caused by missing permissions, but the fact that git-svn has created and used its own .subversion configuration folder under %USERPROFILE%, while svn was using Subversion folder under %APPDATA%.
My solution was deleting the .subversion folder from %USERPROFILE% and creating in its place a symlink (named .subversion) that points to svn configuration directory %APPDATA%\Subversion.
if the aliases section is missing in the authz config file this happens
