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git svn can't handle giant commit

From
fREW Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 19, 2011, 15:28 UTC
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Hey guys,

I'm working on an import of some repos and I discovered that I can't import a certain commit due to it's size. This is the commit:

http://perlcritic.tigris.org/source/browse/perlcritic?view=rev&revision=2676
Clearly it's large :-)
Anyway, here's the error message I get:
   Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff stream:
[new] insn 4 overflows the new data section at
/opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5653

This is not a deal breaker as I'm fairly sure I can do the clone in pieces as opposed to from the root (I just did the root to get a list of authors anyway) but it seems like there should be a way to handle something like this...

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