When you install a new version of Mac OS X, git svn breaks. This happened with Mountain Lion and Mavericks, it happened with Yosemite. It happens again with El Capitan.
Unfortunately, the old solutions no longer work due to El Capitan’s System Integrity Protection:
$ sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/SVN
ln: /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/SVN: Operation not permitted
While you can disable SIP, that’s unnecessary in this case.
Here’s how you get git-svn working:
sudo mkdir /Library/Perl/5.18/auto
sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/SVN /Library/Perl/5.18/auto/
You can’t write to /System, but you can still write to /Library.
Thanks for the post, saved me a bunch of time!
Thank you, that’s was very useful advice.
Just fyi however, when I copied the text from above, I got a extra hidden char …
darwin-thread-multi-2level rather than darwin-thread-multi-2level
lol – I see my attempt to paste the hidden char didn’t work.
It was a 200C which is I think a ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Fixed. Thanks!
Thanks, saved me some time!
If you havent installed Xcode but only the commandline tools (with xcode-select –install) then you have to change the path accordingly.
You can find the correct path with: xcode-select -p
thanks! worked like a charm.
Thanks very much! Solved my problem perfectly!
Thanks a lot. Saved my lot of time and energy :)