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Re: Filesystem has no item: Working copy path [...] does not exist in repository at /usr/bin/git-svn line 3856

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2009, 22:45 UTC
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Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com> wrote:
> In this case the repo was public, what should I do to debug some git-svn
> issue like that if I encounter a problem with a non-public repo?
> May be there is some debug flag I could enable? Or I had to
> guess/explore the svn tree?
I rely on the output of "svn log -v" extensively.

I'll also use strace, ltrace, tcpdump and/or put print statements (combined with Data::Dumper) in various places of git-svn. Unfortunately the git-svn code is quite ugly and I still haven't had the time or energy to clean it up myself :<

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Eric Wong
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  1. Daniele SegatoOct 12, 2009
  2. Eric WongOct 12, 2009
  3. Daniele SegatoOct 12, 2009
  4. Eric WongOct 12, 2009

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