From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:41:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message
Message-ID: <32541b130904300741p325012b7g28dabbd33576ceae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90904300153v22aa3e9fo407ff5084b58b5fc@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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