Trouble Commiting Using git-svn Mac OSX Tiger?

I recently ported the toobs project from sourceforge (SVN) to github (git). So in order to do this I had to get git-svn to work. So with my last post I showed how I got the application to run, however, if you try and commit changes back to svn (git-svn dcommit) you will most likely end up with this error:

Password for 'mike': Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /usr/bin/git-svn line 2272.

This is because git-svn needs the ReadKey perl module to be able to read the server’s key to encrypt the password before it sends the password to the server. (wouldn’t want to be sending passwords in plain text across the internet would you?). Here is the solution:

Pull up the CPAN teminal:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
You may need to set it up if you have never used it…. just use defaults if you are not sure

Once at the cpan prompt install the needed module:
cpan> install Term::ReadKey

once it is finished go ahead and quit the cpan terminal and you should be able to run git-svn dcommit and everything should be peachy

For help on porting an SVN repository over to a local git repository go here:
www.simplisticcomplexity.com