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Re: git svn can't handle giant commit

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Jan 11, 2012, 13:07 UTC
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<20120111130708.GB11984@beez.lab.cmartin.tk>
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:28:04AM -0600, fREW Schmidt wrote:
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> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm working on an import of some repos and I discovered that I can't
> import a certain commit due to it's size.  This is the commit:
> 
> http://perlcritic.tigris.org/source/browse/perlcritic?view=rev&revision=2676
> 
> Clearly it's large :-)
> 
> Anyway, here's the error message I get:
> 
>    Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff stream:
> [new] insn 4 overflows the new data section at
> /opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5653

What version of git are you using? I can't find any of those error messages in the git repo, and it looks like it's the svn library that is creating the error message.

   cmn
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