Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-svn: fixes for intermittent SIGPIPE

> In my work environment subversion is still being used as the main
> revision control system.  Therefore many people who prefer to work with
> git have to resort to git-svn.
>
> However, in many configurations it used to suffer from the notorious
> "git-svn died of signal 13" problem (see e.g.
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134936 and the
> links therein).
>
> I believe to have tracked down the issue to the connection being closed
> by the server when http keep-alive is in use, and the client dying on
> SIGPIPE because its handler is left at SIG_DFL when a new request is
> being made.
>
> The patches have been tested on
>
> - Linux Fedora 16 x86_64, git 1.7.7.6, perl v5.14.2, svn 1.6.17
> - Windows 7 x64 + Cygwin, git 1.7.9, perl v5.10.1, svn 1.7.4,
> - Windows 7 x64 + MsysGit, git 1.7.9.msysgit.0, perl v5.8.8, svn 1.4.6
>
> Roman Kagan (2):
>  git-svn: use POSIX::sigprocmask to block signals
>  git-svn: ignore SIGPIPE
>
>  git-svn.perl |   20 ++++++++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)