From: David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:13:13 GMT
Subject: [BUG] fast-import: ls command on commit root returns missing (was: Bug in svn-fe: copying the root directory acts as if it's an empty directory)
Message-ID: <CAFfmPPMxcs0ySgnD7UfUS1yq=qaqfn1qCxdh1HYgFu6WPfpWQg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Barr <davidbarr@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Sayers
> <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>> Here's a bug with svn-fe that I stumbled over while snorkelling through
>> repo madness.  I've tested it with the version of svn-fe in git.git's
>> master branch.
>>
>> Copying the root directory to a sub-directory (e.g. doing `svn cp .
>> trunk` to standardise your layout) doesn't correctly initialise the new
>> directory.
>
> This issue sounds very familiar, I wonder if there's an existing test
> or pending patch for it? Maybe Dmitry or Jonathan can recall.

I've stepped through the reproduction and the bug seems to arise when
the following command is sent to git-fast-import:

  'ls' SP ':1' SP LF

The expected output in this example is:

  '400000' SP 'tree' SP 'dd59323fe27c5647cb7ef15ce4637faae199c5f0' HT LF

The actual output is:

  'missing' SP LF

--
David Barr