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

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 29, 2009, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID
<46a038f90904290811p33332bd5h1d397734907ba9c2@mail.gmail.com>

There is very small public SVN repo that I'm trying to clone with SVN, and seems to trigger a big in git-svn.

Steps to repro, and error message:

$ git svn clone -T trunk --ignore-paths releases http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git r3 = 30548c9192aefcde23337f70542ab59e193a1b9e (trunk) usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn' $ git version git version 1.6.2.4.10.g2254d <== this is maint as of right now

The same problem exists with master as of right now (v1.6.3-rc3-12-gb79376c)

On a different box it succeeded -- this was a Fedora 9 box, with git from rpms. I did have to drop the '--ignore-paths' paramater though: $ git --version git version 1.6.0.6

any hints as to what could be wrong? The repository is small and pretty vanilla afaics...

cheers,
martin
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