Re: Filesystem has no item: Working copy path [...] does not exist in repository at /usr/bin/git-svn line 3856

From: Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2009, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <1255382764.15646.5.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20091012182018.GA14143@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Il giorno lun, 12/10/2009 alle 11.20 -0700, Eric Wong ha scritto:

> First I thought this was a problem fixed in
> 83c2fcff214fe89649fcd88e095d9961a36b53dd (git v1.6.2 or later),
> but then I tried running it just to make sure.

thank you for taking the time

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> This is a namespace conflict, the "trunk" ref is conflicting with a
> (what seems to be a miscreated) branch named "trunk".  I anticipated
> this problem originally but figured it was rare/uncommon enough that I
> didn't want to burden users by prefixing all branches with something:
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   r25364 | michael.hashimoto | 2009-01-21 14:06:53 -0800 (Wed, 21 Jan 2009) | 1 line
>   Changed paths:
>      A /plugins/branches/trunk
> 
>   Created directory 'plugins/branches/trunk'.
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   r25365 | michael.hashimoto | 2009-01-21 14:07:15 -0800 (Wed, 21 Jan 2009) | 1 line
>   Changed paths:
>      D /plugins/branches/trunk
> 
>   Removed plugins/branches/trunk
> 
> Since it looks pretty obvious that "trunk" was miscreated here from the
> revision history, you can skip these two revisions in your import by
> recontinuing the clone with "git svn fetch -r25365:HEAD"

I thought it could be a problem like this but I asked before re-fetching all the repository (just to be sure)..

unfurtunately I already deleted all the .git directory so i'll have to start again...

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> Replace:
>   [svn-remote "svn"]
>     branches = plugins/branches/*:refs/remotes/svn/*
> 
> With:
> 
>   [svn-remote "svn"]
>     branches = plugins/branches/*:refs/remotes/svn/branches/*
> 
> I didn't do this by default since I figured very few people would create
> a branch named "trunk" (and those who did, did it accidentally as it
> seems to be the case here).
> 
> Hope that helps.

Yes it really help...

But I'll change it like this instead:
  [svn-remote "svn"]
    url = http://svn.liferay.com/repos/public
    fetch = plugins/trunk:refs/remotes/svn/master
    branches = plugins/branches/*:refs/remotes/svn/*

I think it will do as long as they didn't created some branch named "master" :)

In this case the repo was public, what should I do to debug some git-svn issue like that if I encounter a problem with a non-public repo? May be there is some debug flag I could enable? Or I had to guess/explore the svn tree?

thank you Eric

regards, Daniele