Re: git-svn dying unceremoniously

From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Date: Apr 13, 2011, 14:27 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTincypeToMmKWYZmp26Y-3wP6bt5Yw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinnRwas8VSn4p+NRvrwxnVSwBRc1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
>> I managed to get a lot farther with
>>
>>   while ! git svn fetch ; do sleep 1 ; done
>>
>> But eventually I exceeded my disk quota:
>>
>> error: bad index file sha1 signature
>> fatal: index file corrupt
>> write-tree: command returned error: 128
>>
>
> I've run into this in my git-svn clones as well. It happened once last
> year. I tried this trick I found googling around:
>
> rm -f .git/index
> git read-tree --reset HEAD
> git status
>
> .. but it didn't help. I ended up re-doing the git svn clone. Since
> then it has worked fine.

Yeah, I'm redoing mine as well. It'll probably "only" take another 24 hours to finish, but at least it doesn't seem to be getting stuck!

Thanks, all

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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