From: Andrew Sayers Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:13:06 GMT Subject: Bug in svn-fe: copying the root directory acts as if it's an empty directory Message-ID: <4F57EB82.4000309@pileofstuff.org> Here's a bug with svn-fe that I stumbled over while snorkelling through repo madness. I've tested it with the version of svn-fe in git.git's master branch. Copying the root directory to a sub-directory (e.g. doing `svn cp . trunk` to standardise your layout) doesn't correctly initialise the new directory. To replicate the issue, run the following script from an empty directory (update GIT_DIR to point to your git.git repository): GIT_DIR="/home/andrew/git/git" ROOT_DIR="$(pwd)" svnadmin create repo svn checkout "file://$ROOT_DIR/repo" checkout cd checkout echo text > README.txt svn add README.txt svn ci -m "Created README.txt" svn cp "file://$ROOT_DIR/repo" "file://$ROOT_DIR/repo/trunk" \ -m "Created trunk" cd .. mkfifo backchannel mkdir git-repo cd git-repo/ git init svnadmin dump --deltas "$ROOT_DIR/repo" \ | "$GIT_DIR/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe" 3<../backchannel \ | "$GIT_DIR/git-fast-import" --cat-blob-fd=3 3>../backchannel Expected: the git repo contains "README.txt" and "trunk/README.txt" Observed: "README.txt" exists but "trunk/README.txt" doesn't - Andrew