Re: git-svn troubles with calendarserver SVN repo

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2013, 08:54 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH3Anro=vM2JLLZhdJ4nnO3qLhw4yV2JFT8EwC3jcbbGrj4H=g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52991FE0.6040503@redhat.com>

I have seen this behaviour, though never determined the root cause .Probably the simplest thing you can do without access to the server is to put your git svn fetch into a bash while loop, like so:

while ! git svn fetch; do :; done;

jon

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am trying to git-svn clone
> https://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/
> and I cannot say I am much succesful. Every couple of hundred of commits
> I get this:
>
>
> RA layer request failed: REPORT of
> '/repository/calendarserver/!svn/vcc/default': could not connect to
> server (https://svn.calendarserver.org) at
> /usr/local/share/perl5/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 290.
>
>
> and git-svn stops. When restarting git svn fetch, it fetches
> another couple of hundred commits and then fails again. Given
> that there are 11000+ commits just in the trunk, I am afraid of
> a long long night. Did anybody managed to clone this repo? Or is
> there some way how to make git-svn more patient (this error
> means the SVN server is a bit flakey, right)?
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
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