Re: Endianness bug in git-svn or called component?

From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
Date: Dec 4, 2009, 20:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20091204202928.GW17192@gradx.cs.jhu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m23a3qa40n.fsf@igel.home>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu> writes:
> 
> > On this machine,
> >
> > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% uname -a
> > FreeBSD hydra.priv.oc.ietfng.org 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #13: Sat Nov 14 19:40:25 EST 2009 root@hydra.priv.oc.ietfng.org:/systank/obj/systank/src/sys/NWFKERN  sparc64
> >
> > attempting to fetch from an svn source yields the following error:
> >
> > rs hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% git svn init -s https://joshua.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/joshua test-joshua
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /tank0/mirrors/misc/test-joshua/.git/                                       
> > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% cd test-joshua                                                               
> > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc/test-joshua% git svn fetch
> >         A       scripts/distributedLM/config.template       
> > [...]
> >         A       build.xml
> > r1 = fe84a7d821ec6d92da75133ac7ad1deb476b6484 (refs/remotes/trunk)
> > error: index uses  extension, which we do not understand
> > fatal: index file corrupt
> > write-tree: command returned error: 128
> 
> I could not reproduce that on powerpc (both 32bit and 64bit).
> 
> Andreas.

Hm.  I seem to have forgotten to mention that I am running

% git --version git version 1.6.5.3

built from the FreeBSD ports tree, in case that matters, using

% gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]

Knowing nothing of git's internals, how should I start to investigate what's going on here?

Thanks again. --nwf;