{"thread":{"id":"24405","subject":"git svn problem","startedAt":"2010-07-15T11:00:33Z","lastAt":"2010-07-15T11:00:33Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Luis Gutierrez"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"145619","messageId":"DBB61D38F7942B49AD43397D38954724080AB1@ZIPPY.Emea.Arm.com","threadId":"24405","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git svn problem","fromName":"Luis Gutierrez","fromEmail":"luis.gutierrez@arm.com","sentAt":"2010-07-15T11:00:33Z","receivedAt":"2010-07-15T11:00:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"luis.gutierrez@arm.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nI did the usual google search, wiki  and mail list search looking for an\nanswer, but I can't find it anywhere.\n\nI'm trying to use git svn to interact with (surprise) and SVN\nrepository. \ngit svn clone <url> does the trick in getting a copy of the repo.\nHowever, there are a couple of misbehaving sym links that git-index does\nnot know how to handle.\n\nDoing a git-svn-rebase or a git-stash will result in this error:\n\n> git stash\nSaved working directory and index state WIP on master: 919e091 L2C:\nadded X-checking assertions and l2c->RAM interface properties.\nerror: git checkout-index: unable to create symlink < path to file>\n(File name too long)\nerror: git checkout-index: unable to create symlink < path to file >\n<filename> (File name too long)\nfatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD'.\n\nAs far as I can tell, the symlink was full-path symlink (instead of the\nusual relative path) done by someone thousand of svn commits ago.\n\nI've tried with both a full history import, and a shallow (the last 10\ncommits) import and in both cases I'm stuck with this files.\n\nNow, I can't really replace this file with the svn one because on a\ngit-svn-dcommit it will try to replace it.\n\nAs you can imagine, this is killing all the fun. \n\nAny ideas on what to do?\nI would really love to use git instead of SVN for development, but I'll\nsettle for using just to browse the history and changes. \n\nRegards,\n\nLuis Gutierrez\n-- \nIMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium.  Thank you.\n"}]}