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Re: [BUG] git-svn dcommit fails (connection closed unexpectedly)

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
May 13, 2007, 21:01 UTC
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<20070513210128.GA13428@muzzle>
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<20070513182405.GA13618@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
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> On 2007-05-13 19:49:34 +0200, Martin Eisenhardt wrote:
> 
> > Another case where I stumbled upon said error message was when I
> > added an empty (sub)directory to a project in subversion and then
> > used git to track that project. Since git cannot track an empty
> > directory, it did not appear in my git working copy. When I mkdir'd
> > the directory locally (in my git wc) and then tried to add files
> > within that repository, I got exactly the same error as Matthieu.
Interesting.  I don't think git-svn currently checks for that case.
> It might be a net win to let git-svn handle empty directories by
> creating an empty .git-svn-empty-dir file in them, instead of
> pretending they don't exist.
No.  This is *WAY* too ugly.
-- 
Eric Wong
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Message 14 of 18 in “[BUG] git-svn dcommit fails (connection closed unexpectedly)”
  1. Matthieu MoyMay 11, 2007
  2. Lars HjemliMay 11, 2007
  3. Lars HjemliMay 11, 2007
  4. Matthieu MoyMay 11, 2007
  5. Matthieu MoyMay 14, 2007
  6. Eric WongMay 19, 2007
  7. git-svn: avoid crashing svnserve when creating new directoriesEric Wong, May 19, 2007
  8. Matthieu MoyMay 19, 2007
  9. Eric WongMay 19, 2007
  10. Matthieu MoyMay 19, 2007
  11. Eric WongMay 13, 2007
  12. Martin EisenhardtMay 13, 2007
  13. Karl HasselströmMay 13, 2007
  14. Eric WongMay 13, 2007
  15. Eric WongMay 14, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2007
  17. Matthieu MoyMay 14, 2007
  18. Matthieu MoyMay 14, 2007

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