From: Lachlan Deck Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:29:24 GMT Subject: Re: git svn clone failure Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200903281620.29564.markus.heidelberg@web.de> On 29/03/2009, at 2:20 AM, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > Lachlan Deck, 28.03.2009: >> On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote: >> >>> Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just >>>> getting >>>> started with git) and it keeps failing with: >>>> ... >>>> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn) >>>> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn' >>> >>> Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision? >> >> A few thousand out, yes. >> >>> I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL, >>> it >>> doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine, >>> though. >> >> Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://.. >> But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error? > > At least I don't have more info about it except for this: > I use Gentoo Linux and the git ebuild (I have the distribution package > installed, but use the self-compiled git) says > > "Per Gentoo bugs #223747, #238586, when subversion is built" > "with USE=dso, there may be weird crashes in git-svn. You" > "have been warned." > > I have subversion compiled with dso (Enable runtime module search), > it's > enabled per default. And since it worked, I didn't change it. But it > would be interesting to see, if this error has something to do with > it. > Maybe I'll try it out. It may well have been a network issue for me when I tried the other day. It seemed to work fine now. with regards, -- Lachlan Deck