From: Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:34:54 GMT
Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently
Message-ID: <AANLkTim4T2NtRpyWfi8_8AVNYmVSqSsTnoA7fj69K-FA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100731011332.GE5817@burratino>

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Benson,
>
> Benson Margulies wrote:
>> git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate
> [...]
>> No errors, no messages. No branches, no contents. Just the
>> wind whistling through the bytes.

 I don't have $? at hand, but I can tell you that git branch -r says
 nothing, either. Also, running git fetch has the same result. Prints
 the same sort of trace lines if tracing, then does nothing

>
> Heh - you might be the one to figure out
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134936
>
> But first, it would be good to confirm:
>
>  - if you run "echo $?" right after such a failure, what
>   status code do you get?
>
>  - what is the output of "git branch -r" when you finish?
>
> Coping strategy: usually with "git svn clone" failures, you can resume
> where you left off with "git svn fetch".
>
> Good luck,
> Jonathan
>