On OSX using sourcetree / git-svn getting “Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC ”

Question

I\'m using OSX and want get a svn repo into a local git repo using sourcetree.

When I add a bookmark using sourcetree using SVN URL, thus sourcetree<

Answer 1

Thanks Marko, I did find that on ElCapitan 10.11.3 I had to symlink to a different area. Not sure why, but it works.

sudo ln -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin‌​-thread-multi-2level‌​/SVN /Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/git_local/li‌​b/perl5/site_perl/5.‌​18.2/darwin-thread-m‌​ulti-2level/SVN
sudo ln -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin‌​-thread-multi-2level‌​/auto/SVN /Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/git_local/li‌​b/perl5/site_perl/5.‌​18.2/darwin-thread-m‌​ulti-2level/auto/SVN

Answer 2

I got the same issue on Macos Mojave 10.14.1. Because I used the built-in version of git, and it's too lower(2.19.0). I fixed it by upgrade git to the latest version(2.21.0), and I found 2.19.1 also has no this issue.

Answer 3

I hit this missing SVN/Core.pm issue recently with el capitain.

Fix I used was from Paul Schreiber's blog :

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/

Commenters below, say this worked on sierra and high sierra too.

Answer 4

Manage to fix the same issue by changing the first line in /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.29.2/libexec/git-core/git-svn to #!/usr/local/bin/perl

Answer 5

Xcode 11.4 no longer includes SVN/Core.pm in its Perl bindings!

If you've never installed the commandline tools and Xcode 11.4 is the first version you've run you will see this issue. Running xcode-select --install returns error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates, which is accurate but non-obvious that your installed commandline tools differ from what you would get if installed outside of Xcode 11.4. The solution is to first remove these, then install the commandline tools using xcode-select.

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
xcode-select --install

Answer 6

In my case, it is because different versioned perl was installed by brew as dependency of some formula, and override the system's default version.

So the resolution for me is to relieve the overridden as described following.

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when type which perl and perl -v, I find it not the system default version:

# locate programs
faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  whereis perl
/usr/bin/perl

# locate a program file in the user's path
faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level

which should be v5.18.2 according to the git svn error messages.

I guess it is because the different versioned perl was installed by brew as dependency of some formula, and override the system default version.

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  brew uses perl --installed
subversion

To prove it, try to move /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in $PATH, then perl was fallback to the system's default version:

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  whereis perl
/usr/bin/perl

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  which perl
/usr/bin/perl

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  perl -v

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

and perl -V list the @INC just satisfy the Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC requirements:

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration:

  @INC:
    /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /Library/Perl/5.18
    /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /Network/Library/Perl/5.18
    /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2
    /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /System/Library/Perl/5.18
    /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18

type git svn and everything works well!

faner@MBP-FAN:~|⇒  git svn --version
git-svn version 2.15.1 (Apple Git-101) (svn 1.9.7)