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Bug with git svn fetch? "error:too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder"

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JHJess Hottenstein <jess.hottenstein@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 5, 2013, 15:31 UTC
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Hello,

I'm running a git svn fetch of a large svn repo and it is grinding to a halt with thousands of "error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder". My .git/config has grown to ~50000 lines of added-placeholders.

I also had to up my linux file limit because I have ~2500 open files (tempfiles in .git)

I'm doing a onetime migration so I don't really care about having the added-placeholder entries but I do want to keep empty directories.

Any thoughts for a workaround?
Thanks!
Next: Thomas Rast
Message 1 of 8 in “Bug with git svn fetch? "error:too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder"”
  1. Jess HottensteinNov 5, 2013
  2. config: arbitrary number of matches for --unset and --replace-allThomas Rast, Nov 13, 2013
  3. Eric SunshineNov 13, 2013
  4. config: arbitrary number of matches for --unset and --replace-allThomas Rast, Nov 14, 2013
  5. Jeff KingNov 14, 2013
  6. Thomas RastNov 14, 2013
  7. fixup! config: arbitrary number of matches for --unset and --replace-allJunio C Hamano, Dec 6, 2013
  8. Jeff KingDec 6, 2013

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