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Re: git-svn: File was not found in commit

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 11, 2009, 21:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20090111215526.GA15533@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To
<49678705.4040506@mog.se>
On 2009.01.09 18:19:01 +0100, Morgan Christiansson wrote:
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> Hi, i'm trying to "git svn fetch" my repository from a local file:///
> repo and i'm running into this problem:
>
> $ git svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk file:///path/to/svn/repo
> $ git svn fetch
> branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/refs/heads/master
> was not found in commit a643e882c557593f36bb9fd0966490010b9dba61 (r10576)
>
>
> I found another report that seems to describe the same error:
> http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121537767308135&w=2
> Investigating the the history it's committed in r10577 and it's looking
> for it in r10576, so it seems to be off by one revision number. Exactly
> like the other report.
> I've tried the latest git version of git-svn.perl and the problem is not
> fixed there.
>
>
> $ svn log file:///path/to/repo -r10576:10577 -v
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r10576 | morgan | 2008-11-28 14:35:53 +0000 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 3 lines
> Changed paths:
>   A /branches/rails/rails/app/controllers/browse_sheetmusic_controller.rb
>   M /branches/rails/rails/app/controllers/scores_controller.rb
>   M /branches/rails/rails/app/models/composer.rb
>   M /branches/rails/rails/app/models/score.rb
>   M /branches/rails/rails/config/routes.rb
>
> Commit message.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r10577 | morgan | 2008-11-28 18:31:00 +0000 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 3 lines
> Changed paths:
>   A /branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/FETCH_HEAD
>   M /branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/config
>   M /branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/index
>   M /branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/logs/HEAD
>   M
> /branches/rails/rails/vendor/plugins/acts_as_xapian/.git/logs/refs/heads/master 
> 
>
> # <-- THIS FILE

Unless I totally misread that line, SVN reports that the file was _modified_, not added. For the file to be modified, it seems reasonable to expect that it existed in the previous commit.

Is there anything "special" about how that file came into existence in that branch? Without further knowledge, that looks like a svn bug, but hey, it's svn, it might do funny stuff on purpose ;-)

Maybe you could provide a small test case/repo?
Björn
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  1. Morgan ChristianssonJan 9, 2009
  2. Morgan ChristianssonJan 11, 2009
  3. Björn SteinbrinkJan 11, 2009
  4. Morgan ChristianssonJan 12, 2009
  5. Eric WongJan 12, 2009
  6. Eric WongJan 12, 2009
  7. Morgan ChristianssonJan 12, 2009
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