Re: git-svn troubles with calendarserver SVN repo

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2013, 07:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH3Anroi65OrZZQ0MvmPxgWZXB_eG=1aA-cxqdR=y-uAXsFaNA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <529C229F.2030504@redhat.com>

My experience is that the fetch will be atomic - it either fetches an SVN commit or it doesn't.

Failure during dcommit is more painful and I usually find it is necessary to manually use a git rebase to rebase the commits that didn't make it to SVN on top of the commits that did.

jon.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 30/11/13 09:54, Jon Seymour wrote:
>> 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;
>
> Of course, I did this, but still I wonder how much is the resulting git
> repository http://luther.ceplovi.cz/git/CalendarServer.git/ faithful
> representation of the original SVN one http://trac.calendarserver.org/.
> Would not be something missing?
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
>
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