From: Kevin Ballard Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:55:00 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn pulling down duplicate revisions Message-ID: <0E759330-1A0A-489D-ADA3-B71A49951227@sb.org> In-Reply-To: <20080602054034.GA8366@untitled> On Jun 1, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Kevin Ballard wrote: >> On Jun 1, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Eric Wong wrote: >> >>> Kevin Ballard wrote: >>>> I started a git-svn clone on a large svn repository, and I noticed >>>> that for various branches, it kept pulling down the exact same >>>> revisions (starting at r1). In other words, if I had 4 branches >>>> that >>>> shared common history, their common history all got pulled down 4 >>>> times. I double-checked, and the created commit objects were >>>> identical. >>>> >>>> Why was git-svn pulling down the same revisions over and over, when >>>> it >>>> already knows it has a commit object for those revisions? >>> >>> Can you give me an example if a repository and command-line you used >>> that does this? Did you use 'git svn clone -s' or did you manually >>> specify the branch locations in the repo? >>> >>> It could even be a lack of read permissions to the repository root >>> that would cause things like this. >> >> The repository is, unfortunately, a private repo so I can't share it. >> I used `git svn clone -s` to clone it. I have the SVN perl bindings >> v1.4.4 (according to git svn --version). >> >> I definitely have read permissions to the repo root. If I specify to >> only fetch -r 12000:HEAD (there's 14000-odd revisions), it doesn't >> pull down any duplicates, but when I let it start from the root, it >> pulls down hundreds of duplicates for multiple branches. > > Can you at least send me the 'svn log -v' output for that repo? > Feel free to leave out the actual log messages and munge the path > names if you can't expose that information. I'll have to do it tomorrow when I'm at the office. How much log info do you need? I can let it run until I see duplicate revisions (it's pretty obvious, it starts over again from r1). -Kevin -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com