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Re: git-svn dying unceremoniously

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Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 13, 2011, 12:46 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
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> 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.

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  1. Dave AbrahamsApr 11, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederApr 12, 2011
  3. Andres FreundApr 12, 2011
  4. Dave AbrahamsApr 12, 2011
  5. Thomas Ferris NicolaisenApr 13, 2011
  6. Dave AbrahamsApr 13, 2011

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