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Re: git-svn in 1.5.4~rc2 somewhat broken?

From
Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2007, 16:07 UTC
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<20071230160758.GA7520@dervierte>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:09:28PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
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> I just tried to run "git svn fetch" on a clone of a Subversion
> repository that used to work fine with 1.5.3.  After trying to fix some
> things up (sorry, scrollback buffer is not deep enough), it now reports
> an index mismatch:
> 
> Index mismatch: efcc3165fb64519ff1784903112d725c8682d5d2 != b3e7f07b5e4b79f682718fe6a31107d74ca35ce6
> 
> And it finally bails out with:
> 
> Last fetched revision of refs/remotes/git-svn was r45313, but we are about to fetch: r851!

Messages like these usually mean you've changed refs/remotes/trunk, which will confuse git-svn unless you know what you're doing. Fortunately, you can usually "rm -rf .git/svn" and git-svn will sort itself out on the next fetch.

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