From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki.news@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:58:33 GMT
Subject: git-svn problems with cloning
Message-ID: <AANLkTinHmE-_JFeZP1AQ9yKh0ZN3+oqug=+j+5JcFHcm@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm trying to git-svn clone repository. I have encountered two
problems. For the the first one I have a workaround, but I'm lost with
the second.


1. I have a problem with one commit which tries to create a file name
which is not acceptable by file system (fat32). I tried to ignore this
files by using --ignore-paths, but it does not work. Am I using
ignore-paths incorrectly or do I have to find a different workaround?
(I'm thinking about using specific revisions or using filter-branch).

Here's what's happening:

$ git svn clone -s -r164508 '--ignore-paths=.*https:.*' <url>
Initialized empty Git repository in <path>/.git/
Using higher level of URL: <url> => <url>
mkdir .git/svn/refs/remotes/tags/https:: Invalid argument at
/usr/local/stow/git-1.7.4/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3856

$ svn log -v -r164508 <url>
[...]
   A /<project>/tags/https:/blahblah

$ mkdir https:
mkdir: cannot create directory `https:': Invalid argument


2. I have specified revision that do not have invalid file names in it
and it worker, but git reported error later on, I suppose due to
--ignore-paths:

$ git svn clone -s '--ignore-paths=^/branches/<list of branches>'
'--ignore-paths=^/tags/<list of tags>' -r164510:HEAD <url>
[...]
r166131 = 86085ee643d1b8ecb60f6ec3212904a24dd4d71a
(refs/remotes/<ignored branch 1>
)
[...]
r167889 = 1fdb8124d72e1bc417f7fe06051a5280675dc73b
(refs/remotes/<ignored branch 2>)

	M	[...]	
Found merge parent (svn:mergeinfo prop):
1fdb8124d72e1bc417f7fe06051a5280675dc73b

[...]
W: Cannot find common ancestor between
689e9a85f91eb71e37ccd79063e0a5aaa37d1b74 and
5d04d29ab3c76835facade1859aed30129abecf4. Ignoring merge info.

Found merge parent (svn:mergeinfo prop):
039125717428084cdf4d38b8a98f431a9b656f1c

Couldn't find revmap for <url>/<ignored branch 3>/path
fatal: ambiguous argument
'86085ee643d1b8ecb60f6ec3212904a24dd4d71a^..1fdb8124d72e1bc417f7fe06051a5280675dc73b':
unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

rev-list 86085ee643d1b8ecb60f6ec3212904a24dd4d71a^..1fdb8124d72e1bc417f7fe06051a5280675dc73b:
command returned error: 128



I'm not sure how to deal with this...


-- 
Piotrek