Re: git-svn error: ambiguous argument
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Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
- Date
- May 11, 2010, 14:25 UTC
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 22:51, Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> wrote:
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> Hi, > > Since the 1.7 time frame my git-svn imports have stopped working after a period of time. The error that crops up is: > > trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '-1' 'cb612e24c7d15ff8b4b13822592fff25e1efff13' 'd18d09558e4f56fb757b258cb364f38861f84116' '3f498379030b5358d65820415b98cbe338086247' '1e4ed9c6fde9e4b2465a8db6915f32a132634064' 'a51029a8667288556e02055057f250157e0a7f59' '0a7934d4a22563e29ed9857240bc022800f626f7' 'c6a0edb91eed10b86aad74c138422ff8a496ad29' 'd211954a973b92feef86aa130bf5ac253c095574' 'd9e99745569c8cd7d087cd8740f915b34f0f5fa2' '--not' 'd86892a76b3ef4049b87ca50f62846cdff5f204f' > trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '-1' 'cb612e24c7d15ff8b4b13822592fff25e1efff13' 'd18d09558e4f56fb757b258cb364f38861f84116' '3f498379030b5358d65820415b98cbe338086247' '--not' 'd86892a76b3ef4049b87ca50f62846cdff5f204f' > trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '-1' 'cb612e24c7d15ff8b4b13822592fff25e1efff13' '--not' 'd86892a76b3ef4049b87ca50f62846cdff5f204f' > trace: built-in: git 'merge-base' 'd86892a76b3ef4049b87ca50f62846cdff5f204f' 'cb612e24c7d15ff8b4b13822592fff25e1efff13' > trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--no-merges' 'cb612e24c7d15ff8b4b13822592fff25e1efff13' '--not' '23dfc0fd04cedd8e09c2bfa6f0e79e9a4282bc57' > trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' 'dde42274ac34e4055275ea4926cd8cc259476399^..4ff8e8528dd9d3901c6839080a6f172b8e380764' > fatal: ambiguous argument 'dde42274ac34e4055275ea4926cd8cc259476399^..4ff8e8528dd9d3901c6839080a6f172b8e380764': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions > rev-list dde42274ac34e4055275ea4926cd8cc259476399^..4ff8e8528dd9d3901c6839080a6f172b8e380764: command returned error: 128 > > This git-svn repo is a shallow clone of a very large svn repo. > > It was initialized like this: > > git svn init SVNREPO --trunk=network/trunk --branches=network/branches --tags=network/tagz --ignore-paths='^.+/(?:branches)/(?!BR_ENG_PLFM|BR_REL)' network > git svn fetch -r 112002 > > It appears that one of the branches cannot find it's parent: > > git log dde42274ac34e4055275ea4926cd8cc259476399^
That hit me too. The first revision number is the root commit, which does not have any parents. Thats why the rev-list command fails.
Bert