Re: git svn clone segmentation faul issue

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 28, 2016, 13:32 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606281530420.12947@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606281334450.12947@virtualbox>

Hi Ioannis,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Ioannis.Kappas@rbs.com wrote:
> 
> > Git can fail with a "malformed index nnn" error or cause a segmentation
> > fault when executing the "git svn clone" command. 
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Fortunately, a patch has already been submitted to subversion with
> > (github) revision a074af86c8764404b28ce99d0bedcb668a321408 (at
> > https://github.com/apache/subversion/commit/a074af86c8) on the trunk to
> > handle this and a couple of other similar cases. But by the looks of it
> > has not been picked up yet in the latest subversion 1.9.4 release or the
> > 1.9.x branch, perhaps because this patch was identified in sanity checks
> > rather than coming out from a perceivable production issue?
> 
> This is an excellent analysis and a silver lining on the horizon to
> resolve those vexing git svn issues we keep having in Git for Windows.
> 
> Do you have a test case that is reliably reproducing the issue?

I hope you do! I patched the MSYS2 build script to apply a074af86c8 before compiling, and uploaded the resulting packages for i686 and x86_64 architectures to

	https://github.com/dscho/MSYS2-packages/releases/tag/subversion-1.9.4-2

Would you mind giving them a whirl?

Thanks, Johannes