[BUG?] Re: fail to svn clone debian's kernel repository

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Mar 2, 2010, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20100302195454.GB12942@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <4B8B21A8.6000603@hartwork.org>

The 01/03/10, Sebastian Pipping wrote:

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> On 06/10/09 18:05, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > using git v1.6.3.1 from Debian I fail to successfully run
> > 
> > 	git svn clone svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6
> > 
> > It runs for some time and then ends in:
> > 
> > 	...
> > 	r4695 = f552d98386b301cbeaa3b5a20f9e9d5d3c9c4886 (git-svn)
> > 		M	debian/arch/alpha/defines
> > 	r4696 = 18c0a37de057d24955b66e8f49db0791f6018288 (git-svn)

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> > 	Invalid filesystem path syntax: Cannot replace a directory from within at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4388
> 
> I have run into a similar problem, both with Git 1.7.0 as well as with
> Git via Git.
> 
> Has anybody been able to work around this?
> Is anybody working on a fix?

I've stopped cloning at r10252 with current next version. I didn't notice any problem.

Does the tests pass for you ?

  $ cd t
  $ make

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht