From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:36:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Destroy the cache when we fail to read it
Message-ID: <20110823023637.GB4623@elie.gateway.2wire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110823022717.GA4623@elie.gateway.2wire.net>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> [This patch teaches "git svn" to invalidate caches when they
>  fail to load, for example because the endianness or size of
>  some type changed, which is common in the perl 5.6 -> 5.8
>  upgrade.]

Erm, actually it showed up in the perl 5.10 -> 5.12 upgrade in Debian,
due to use of -Duse64bitint when compiling the latter and not the
former[1].

To summarize:

 - "$Storable::interwork_56_64bit = 1;" can be used to work around
   that particular brand of breakage;

 - The interwork_* option does not take care of similar cases in which
   a git-svn repository is generated on one machine and read by
   another[2], though.

Hence my happiness at the arrival of Jason's patch.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=32;bug=618875
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=20;bug=587650