git-svn bug: Could not unmemoize function `lookup_svn_merge' ...

From: George V. Reilly <george@reilly.org>
Date: Dec 28, 2010, 05:37 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=14DKGzotpZT66dG93uWHhpCa526C8F7Zk_REa@mail.gmail.com>

Using git version 1.7.3.2 on OS X 10.6.5 against the Subversion repository at work, I got

    georger@George-Reillys-MacBook-Pro-17:~/src/wc-git$ git svn rebase
        M	CoBranding/Resources/USA7/Resources.resx
        M	CoBranding/Resources/Resources.csproj
    Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit
into ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at
/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/Memoize/Storable.pm line 21

    Could not unmemoize function `lookup_svn_merge', because it was
not memoized to begin with at /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git-svn
line 3194
    END failed--call queue aborted at
/usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 39.

The error was repeatable.

I managed to get past it by using the git-svn Perl script from Git 1.6.5.7, per http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/1/13/20137, and invoking it thus:

    $ perl -I /usr/local/git/lib/perl5/site_perl/ ~/temp/git-svn.pl rebase
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