git svn problem

Hi,

I did the usual google search, wiki and mail list search looking for an answer, but I can't find it anywhere.

I'm trying to use git svn to interact with (surprise) and SVN repository. git svn clone <url> does the trick in getting a copy of the repo. However, there are a couple of misbehaving sym links that git-index does not know how to handle.

Doing a git-svn-rebase or a git-stash will result in this error:

Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 919e091 L2C: added X-checking assertions and l2c->RAM interface properties. error: git checkout-index: unable to create symlink < path to file> (File name too long) error: git checkout-index: unable to create symlink < path to file > <filename> (File name too long) fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD'.

As far as I can tell, the symlink was full-path symlink (instead of the usual relative path) done by someone thousand of svn commits ago.

I've tried with both a full history import, and a shallow (the last 10 commits) import and in both cases I'm stuck with this files.

Now, I can't really replace this file with the svn one because on a git-svn-dcommit it will try to replace it.

As you can imagine, this is killing all the fun. 

Any ideas on what to do? I would really love to use git instead of SVN for development, but I'll settle for using just to browse the history and changes.

Regards,

Luis Gutierrez