[ANNOUNCE] git-svn-bugfix script (Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Make following parents atomic)

git-svn has some bugs where it won't create identical commits in different git-svn copies of the same svn history, despite all relevant configuration being identical; oftentimes, the copies will diverge from each other at some point. My theory for a long time was that interrupting git svn fetch could cause this, and it turns out I was right in one case, but since it's not something I could easily interrupt my normal workflow with to do forensics when it occurred, I ended up writing a script to repeatedly fetch from a certain svn repository, and compare refs to a supposedly pristine fetch until the refs diverged or one fetched all the svn history; then, rinse and repeat the process from the beginning. It's available at

git://git.deskinm.fdns.net/git-svn-bugfix.git

Using this script, r3924 of SVN's svn repository flagged one bug repeatedly, for which I've posted a patch. I'm posting the repo because there are other places where history diverges that I've not had a chance to debug yet, so others should feel free to use the script to find and fix them. If anyone feels inclined, I'll gladly take patches to the script, but I don't really care to handle data or bug reports you generate with it (at least not at this point); I can generate plenty of data myself.

Deskin Miller