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Re: git svn clone -r HEAD

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Jul 20, 2009, 05:55 UTC
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Ka-Hing Cheung <kcheung@riverbed.com> wrote:
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> Hi (not subscribed),
> 
> git-svn uses $ra->get_latest_revnum to find out the latest revision, but
> that can be problematic, because get_latest_revnum returns the latest
> revnum in the entire repository, not restricted by whatever URL you used
> to construct $ra. So if you do git svn clone -r HEAD
> svn://blah/blah/trunk, it won't work if the latest checkin is in one of
> the branches (it will try to fetch a rev that doesn't exist in trunk,
> making the clone useless).
> 
> This change seems to work, sorry it's not a proper diff:
> @sub fetch_all {
> -       my $head = $ra->get_latest_revnum;
> +       my $head = undef;
> +       $ra->get_log("", -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, sub { $head = $_[1] });
Thanks Ka-Hing,

There's an unrelated issue with $ra->get_log being broken with http(s) URLs that need escaping, so t9118 is failing on me when SVN_HTTPD_PORT is set (I just found another fix that broke that test, too). I'll push out this fix when I can get t9118 fixed with HTTP.

-- 
Eric Wong
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