{"thread":{"id":"20054","subject":"'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","startedAt":"2009-07-08T11:21:24Z","lastAt":"2009-07-10T07:07:13Z","messageCount":8,"participants":["Graeme Geldenhuys","Eric Wong","Yann Dirson","Michael J Gruber"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"117611","messageId":"h31vg6$b38$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Graeme Geldenhuys","fromEmail":"graemeg@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-08T11:21:24Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-08T11:21:24Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"graemeg@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fdaae0cf0a07bd33782720fb37ae0450f504d4e04c57c6e8f3517d11d503fdc6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hi,\n\nI'm using git-1.6.3.3 under Ubuntu Linux 8.04.2\n\nI'm trying to convert (clone) a SubVersion repository to Git, so I can \nhost the mirror on GitHub, but for the last 4 days I don't get very far. \nIt seems to be getting a few files, then freezes and then gives the \nerror shown below. I'm now stuck around r2665 out of about 14,000 \nrevisions. :-(\n\nI have done such a clone before using a different SVN repository and \npulling in around 13,000 revisions, so my 'git svn' commands should work.\n\n==============================\n$ git svn fetch\n.....\n A fixes_2_0/fv/gadgets.pas\n A fixes_2_0/fv/colortxt.pas\n A fixes_2_0/fv/outline.pas\nRA layer request failed: REPORT of '/svn/fpc/!svn/vcc/default': Could \nnot read response body: connection was closed by server \n(http://svn2.freepascal.org) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line \n4505\n==============================\n\n.git/config file contains the following (showing the SubVersion repository)\n\n======================\n...snip...\n[svn-remote \"svn\"]\n\turl = http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc\n\tfetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk\n\tbranches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*\n\ttags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*\n...snip...\n======================\n\n\nAny thoughts on why I am getting this error?\n\n\nRegards,\n - Graeme -\n\n-- \nfpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal\nhttp://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/\n"},{"id":"117642","messageId":"20090708235900.GB20768@dcvr.yhbt.net","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"h31vg6$b38$1@ger.gmane.org","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Eric Wong","fromEmail":"normalperson@yhbt.net","sentAt":"2009-07-08T23:59:00Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-08T23:59:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"e@80x24.org","avatar":null},"body":"Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> I'm using git-1.6.3.3 under Ubuntu Linux 8.04.2\n>\n> I'm trying to convert (clone) a SubVersion repository to Git, so I can \n> host the mirror on GitHub, but for the last 4 days I don't get very far. \n> It seems to be getting a few files, then freezes and then gives the \n> error shown below. I'm now stuck around r2665 out of about 14,000 \n> revisions. :-(\n>\n> I have done such a clone before using a different SVN repository and \n> pulling in around 13,000 revisions, so my 'git svn' commands should work.\n>\n> ==============================\n> $ git svn fetch\n> .....\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/gadgets.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/colortxt.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/outline.pas\n> RA layer request failed: REPORT of '/svn/fpc/!svn/vcc/default': Could \n> not read response body: connection was closed by server \n> (http://svn2.freepascal.org) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line \n> 4505\n\nDoes restarting \"git svn fetch\" work? Can you checkout exactly that\nrevision from SVN itself? It could be an extremely large file that\nSVN has trouble serving, but as far as I can tell it's a problem\nwith the server or your connection and not with git svn.\n\nI'll give it a shot when I'm on a better connection/machine later.\n\n-- \nEric Wong\n"},{"id":"117667","messageId":"h34b32$6v8$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"20090708235900.GB20768@dcvr.yhbt.net","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Graeme Geldenhuys","fromEmail":"graemeg@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-09T08:51:21Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-09T08:51:21Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"graemeg@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fdaae0cf0a07bd33782720fb37ae0450f504d4e04c57c6e8f3517d11d503fdc6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Eric Wong wrote:\n> \n> Does restarting \"git svn fetch\" work? Can you checkout exactly that\n> revision from SVN itself? It could be an extremely large file that\n> SVN has trouble serving, but as far as I can tell it's a problem\n> with the server or your connection and not with git svn.\n\nWe have a 4MB ADSL connection to our office. Yes, \"git svn fetch\" does \ncontinue for a while, then bombs out again. This morning I saw for the \nfirst time in 2 days new revisions being pulled in, so clearly that one \nrevision was a very large one. But still today, the \"git svn fetch\" \nbombs out at least every 30 minutes, so I have to constantly keep \nrestarting it.\n\nI have no idea what the remote server's internet connection is like. I \njust know pulling in 14,000 revisions by restarting every 30 minutes is \ngoing to take a damn long time. ;-)\n\n[ I have SVN! Git is SO much faster! ]\n\n\nRegards,\n - Graeme -\n\n-- \nfpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal\nhttp://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/\n"},{"id":"117668","messageId":"h34b5k$6v8$2@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"h34b32$6v8$1@ger.gmane.org","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Graeme Geldenhuys","fromEmail":"graemeg@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-09T08:52:44Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-09T08:52:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"graemeg@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fdaae0cf0a07bd33782720fb37ae0450f504d4e04c57c6e8f3517d11d503fdc6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:\n> \n> [ I have SVN! Git is SO much faster! ]\n ^^^^^^^^^^^\nThat should have read: I hate SVN! :-)\n\n\nRegards,\n - Graeme -\n\n-- \nfpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal\nhttp://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/\n"},{"id":"117676","messageId":"20090709093412.GA30076@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"h31vg6$b38$1@ger.gmane.org","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Yann Dirson","fromEmail":"ydirson@altern.org","sentAt":"2009-07-09T09:34:12Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-09T09:34:12Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ydirson@altern.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1190950?v=4"},"body":"I ran an \"svn clone -s http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc\" yesterday,\nand it went through all 13373 revs without a problem. The freeze you\ntalk about must have done something weird to the git-svn metadata.\n"},{"id":"117684","messageId":"4A55DC23.7010806@drmicha.warpmail.net","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"h31vg6$b38$1@ger.gmane.org","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Michael J Gruber","fromEmail":"git@drmicha.warpmail.net","sentAt":"2009-07-09T12:01:39Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-09T12:01:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@grubix.eu","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233215?v=4"},"body":"Graeme Geldenhuys venit, vidit, dixit 08.07.2009 13:21:\n> Hi,\n> \n> I'm using git-1.6.3.3 under Ubuntu Linux 8.04.2\n> \n> I'm trying to convert (clone) a SubVersion repository to Git, so I can \n> host the mirror on GitHub, but for the last 4 days I don't get very far. \n> It seems to be getting a few files, then freezes and then gives the \n> error shown below. I'm now stuck around r2665 out of about 14,000 \n> revisions. :-(\n> \n> I have done such a clone before using a different SVN repository and \n> pulling in around 13,000 revisions, so my 'git svn' commands should work.\n> \n> ==============================\n> $ git svn fetch\n> .....\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/gadgets.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/colortxt.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/outline.pas\n> RA layer request failed: REPORT of '/svn/fpc/!svn/vcc/default': Could \n> not read response body: connection was closed by server \n> (http://svn2.freepascal.org) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line \n> 4505\n> ==============================\n> \n> .git/config file contains the following (showing the SubVersion repository)\n> \n> ======================\n> ...snip...\n> [svn-remote \"svn\"]\n> \turl = http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc\n> \tfetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk\n> \tbranches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*\n> \ttags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*\n> ...snip...\n> ======================\n> \n> \n> Any thoughts on why I am getting this error?\n\nHmm, I cloned with standard layout and everything looks fine, see below.\nAre you seeing the same problems on a fresh clone attempt (from an empty\ndir)?\n\nBetween 2665 and 2674 I see no revisions, but those two are really small\nchanges. Can you 'svn log -r2664:2674' that range?\n\nMichael\n\nr13373 = c63340f4ac03767bcf049d88f0cd9a8ae3199090 (trunk)\n\n\nChecking out files: 100% (10468/10468), done.\n\n\nChecked out HEAD:\n\n\n http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk r13373\n\n$ git branch -a\n* master\n remotes/aspect\n remotes/avr\n remotes/cleanroom\n remotes/cpstr\n remotes/ctypes\n remotes/fixes_2_0\n remotes/fixes_2_2\n remotes/fixes_2_2_0_dos\n remotes/florian\n remotes/fpc_2_3\n remotes/generics\n remotes/genfunc\n remotes/inline\n remotes/janbruns\n remotes/linker\n remotes/linker@2665\n remotes/llvm\n remotes/merged\n remotes/newthreading\n remotes/objc\n remotes/rc_2_2_2\n remotes/release_2_1_2x\n remotes/release_2_2_4_rc1\n remotes/resources\n remotes/ssa\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_0\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_2\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_4\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_4_macos\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_4_rc1\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_4_rc2\n remotes/tags/release_2_0_4_rc3\n remotes/tags/release_2_1_2\n remotes/tags/release_2_1_4\n remotes/tags/release_2_2_0\n remotes/tags/release_2_2_2\n remotes/tags/release_2_2_2_rc1\n remotes/tags/release_2_2_2_rc2\n remotes/tags/release_2_2_4\n remotes/tags/test_2_0_4\n remotes/tags/test_2_0_4_1\n remotes/trunk\n remotes/tue\n remotes/unicodertl\n remotes/unicodestring\n remotes/unitrw\n remotes/wpo\n"},{"id":"117686","messageId":"h34ors$g55$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"20090709093412.GA30076@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Graeme Geldenhuys","fromEmail":"graemeg@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-09T12:46:27Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-09T12:46:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"graemeg@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fdaae0cf0a07bd33782720fb37ae0450f504d4e04c57c6e8f3517d11d503fdc6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Yann Dirson wrote:\n> I ran an \"svn clone -s http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc\" yesterday,\n> and it went through all 13373 revs without a problem. The freeze you\n> talk about must have done something weird to the git-svn metadata.\n> \n\n\nThat is weird. Two of you got it right without issues.... I'm trying \nagain, using a new repository directory and see what happens. Like you \nsaid, maybe the original one got corrupt or something.\n\nI'm using the following command:\n\n$ git svn clone -s --authors-file=/mnt/samba/git/fpc-users.txt \\\n http://svn2.freepascal.org/svn/fpc fpc_new.git\n\nLets hope it goes through this time. I'll report on my progress later. \nIf this doesn't work, I'll try it without the --authors-file option.\n\nIf it doesn't go well, any chance you still have that FPC repository \nlying around? Would it then be possible for you to repack the repository \nand archive (zip, bzip, 7zip etc..) the repository so I could download \nthe whole thing from you? But this is ONLY if my new attempt doesn't work.\n\nI'm hoping all will go well though, otherwise I am totally stumped as to \nwhy I can't clone it myself.\n\nRegards,\n - Graeme -\n\n-- \nfpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal\nhttp://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/\n"},{"id":"117752","messageId":"h36pc1$4cv$1@ger.gmane.org","threadId":"20054","inReplyTo":"h31vg6$b38$1@ger.gmane.org","subject":"Re: 'git svn fetch' keeps giving a error after freezing","fromName":"Graeme Geldenhuys","fromEmail":"graemeg@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-10T07:07:13Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-10T07:07:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"graemeg@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fdaae0cf0a07bd33782720fb37ae0450f504d4e04c57c6e8f3517d11d503fdc6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:\n> \n> ==============================\n> $ git svn fetch\n> .....\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/gadgets.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/colortxt.pas\n> A fixes_2_0/fv/outline.pas\n> RA layer request failed: REPORT of '/svn/fpc/!svn/vcc/default': Could \n> not read response body: connection was closed by server \n> (http://svn2.freepascal.org) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line \n> 4505\n> ==============================\n\nIt seems this issue has nothing to do with Git. It's a bug in the TCP \ntraffic handling in all SVN clients from Collabnet. Here is a recent bug \nreport about this exact issue.\n\nhttp://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/1576\n\nThe problem gets triggered on slow connections and large revisions \n(commits) or large files.\n\nOur slow connection is probably why I keep getting the issue. Even \nthough we have a 4MB ADSL connection, we hardly ever reach that speeds. \nPlus some more research revealed the shaped ADSL connection goes through \nour ISP's transparent proxy, making the connection even more flaky/slow.\n\nLuckily the FPC repository has an alternative port that it listens to as \nwell (port 8080) which bypasses the transparent proxy. Using the new \nport, the 'git svn fetch' is flying!!!! :-) At Last!\n\nThanks to all that tried to help me...\n\n\nRegards,\n - Graeme -\n\n-- \nfpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal\nhttp://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/\n"}]}