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Re: git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2009, 14:41 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Actually, after removing the git-core package and all its dependencies...
>
> # same git version that succeeds on Fedora 9, here says:
> $ git svn  clone  -T trunk  http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git
> usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>
> error closing pipe: Broken pipe at
> /home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3252
> cat-file --batch: command returned error: 129
Try this:
  strace -fF git svn  clone  -T trunk
http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git 2>&1 | egrep -i
'git.pm|git-svn'

If you wade through the output, it should tell you which git.pm and git-svn you're *really* getting.

Avery
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