{"thread":{"id":"34171","subject":"[bug, git-svn] error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder","startedAt":"2013-06-17T05:59:17Z","lastAt":"2013-06-17T05:59:17Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Andrei Purdea"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"221035","messageId":"CACzjUoX0X6vx58C0Gi2-aQNq7wdHXsEJY4KtUHJTM8_e-9HH4w@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"34171","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[bug, git-svn] error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder","fromName":"Andrei Purdea","fromEmail":"purdea.andrei@gmail.com","sentAt":"2013-06-17T05:59:17Z","receivedAt":"2013-06-17T05:59:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"purdea.andrei@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"When trying to clone a big svn repository using git-svn, with many\nempty folders,\nafter a while I started getting many\n\"error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder\" errors.\n\nThe following url has a suggestion for a temporary fix:\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/14512292/git-svn-clone-prints-hundreds-of-error-too-many-matches-for-svn-remote-svn-add\n\nStill I think this should be fixed in git.\nI don't think a limit of less then 512 empty folders is a realistic limit.\nIs it even a good idea to store lists that are this big in .git/config?\nShouldn't this get it's own file?\n\nAndrei\n"}]}