From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn pulling down duplicate revisions
Message-ID: <20080602050050.GC9904@hand.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1AD7D1A1-EC3B-450D-A648-04ADB8180E46@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> I started a git-svn clone on a large svn repository, and I noticed  
> that for various branches, it kept pulling down the exact same  
> revisions (starting at r1). In other words, if I had 4 branches that  
> shared common history, their common history all got pulled down 4  
> times. I double-checked, and the created commit objects were identical.
> 
> Why was git-svn pulling down the same revisions over and over, when it  
> already knows it has a commit object for those revisions?

Can you give me an example if a repository and command-line you used
that does this?   Did you use 'git svn clone -s' or did you manually
specify the branch locations in the repo?

It could even be a lack of read permissions to the repository root
that would cause things like this.

Thanks,

-- 
Eric Wong