Re: latest update to git-svn blows up for me

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2006, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <86zma3lahj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061204181241.GA27342@soma>

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

Eric> "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

>> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
>>

Eric> "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

>> >> 
>> >> Does this ring a bell?
>>

Eric> Nope.

>>

Eric> This is on r15941 of https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk ? I can't seem Eric> to reproduce this with git svn fetch -r15940:15941

>> 
>> No, and that worked for me as well.  Apparently, I might have corrupted my
>> metadata because I updated git-svn while I was using it.  Is there any way to
>> reset the metadata without having to re-fetch 15000 revisions?

Eric> rm .git/refs/remotes/$GIT_SVN_ID .git/svn/$GIT_SVN_ID/.rev_db Eric> git svn -i $GIT_SVN_ID rebuild

That's not working:

localhost.local:..RROR/parrot-GITSVN % git-svn -i git-svn rebuild
fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: unexpected EOF
Failed to find remote refs
256 at /opt/git/bin/git-svn line 2151
        main::safe_qx('git-ls-remote', 'origin', 'refs/remotes/git-svn') called at /opt/git/bin/git-svn line 3404
        main::copy_remote_ref() called at /opt/git/bin/git-svn line 226
        main::rebuild() called at /opt/git/bin/git-svn line 187

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