Re: git-svn error when cloning apache repo

From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2007, 12:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20070918125352.GA19524@falcon.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <46ED17A9.2010603@vilain.net>

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:46:49PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> Jing Xue wrote:
> > $ git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core/ ivy-core -T trunk -b branches -t tags
> > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> > Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
> >   
> 
> I'm fairly sure this is where it went wrong. Try editing .git/config and
> putting your original URL in the source URL, and re-try the fetch.

Hmm... thanks, but didn't work. The repo didn't look right to begin with. The HEAD pointed to refs/heads/master as usual, but there was nothing in refs/heads at all.

I also tried: git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ ivy-core -s --prefix=incubator/ivy/core/

And got no errors, but there wasn't any working tree in ivy-core afterwards. Then I tried 'git svn rebase':

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions fatal: Needed a single revision invalid upstream

Due to the same "nothing in refs/heads" situation. Also there is this 23M file .git/svn/incubator/ivy/core/trunk/.rev_db.13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef6 that contains all 0's.

The part before "I also tried..." was with git 1.5.3. "I also tried..." was with git 1.5.3.1.112.gb7a2 as of last night.

Cheers.

-- 
Jing Xue