Re: git-svn: failure to clone logcheck's repo

From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 13, 2007, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20070713094710.GB18199@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To: <20070713093622.GA21001@lapse.madduck.net>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:36:22AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

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> Hi list,
> 
> I am trying to access the logcheck repository with git-svn. Even
> though I can happily clone the trunk:
> 
>   git-svn clone svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck/trunk git
> 
> as soon as I try to clone the entire thing with tags and branches:
> 
>   git-svn clone -T trunk -t tags -b branches
>     svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck git
> 
> it barfs:
> 
>   Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>   Using higher level of URL: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck => svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck
>   r19 = 95d0625b6c62935cfd3e44ec7dca5b6f6b05ab44 (trunk)
>   [...]
>   r20 = a3e5240dcc4d064b46273584800d3ae7a1e21330 (trunk)
>   Found possible branch point: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck/trunk => svn://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck/branches/VENDOR, 20
>   Found branch parent: (VENDOR) a3e5240dcc4d064b46273584800d3ae7a1e21330
>   Following parent with do_switch
>   Successfully followed parent
>   r21 = 0ffcb70923d77c1d24019362e1ed1cd18d05f235 (VENDOR)
>   Malformed network data: Malformed network data at /usr/local/bin/git-svn line 1029
> 
> I think I'll be fine with *not* preserving logcheck's history when
> I move it to git, but thought best to let you know since this may be
> a bug in git-svn.
>

This is a known problem. If I remember correctly,it is save to just resume the import with git-svn fetch, and nothing bad should happen.

Just search the list archive for more info (sorry, I don't have a reference to the thread)

-Peter