Fwd: Problem using git svn clone

From: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2007, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <bf7b2dda0705241548m29bbb9f9y53d9f9d7448e73ae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bf7b2dda0705241539i56f1b5b3kcd001e871e8688ef@mail.gmail.com>

Apparently gmail does some HTMLing on reply unless you watch out, so this didn't reach the list.

/Gustaf

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From: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2007 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: Problem using git svn clone
To: Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org

On 5/24/07, Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Gustaf Hendeby" <hendeby@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have a problem with git-svn, which I hope the list can shed some
> > light over.  I'm quite new to git (but so far I really like it, great
> > job guys!) and I never use SVN, so don't really know what information
> > may be needed to be able to help me on the right track.  I hope the
> > below problem description is appropriate.
>
> Although you've described in detail what you did, it isn't clear to me
> what the problem is...

Let me clarify. When trying to check out the module with tags, the first example I only get the revisions, no content at all! I have added some more info on this below.

The second case works as I expected it, I included it as reference, and to show that it worked (probably not the smartest thing to do I guess). Hence, probably just the first example is of interest.

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> > The situation is as follows:
> >
> > I plan to use git and git svn to track a module in the middle of a SVN
> > repository (which I have no control over) where I don't have read
> > access more than to this specific module and the base directory, ie
> > the layout is similar to this
> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/trunk
> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/tags
> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/branches
> > and I have read access to https://svm.foo.bar/a,
> > https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c and below, but nothing else.
> >
> > What I want to do is clone the whole thing, including tags and
> > branches.  I expected to be able to use the following command to do
> > this (git v1.5.2):
> >
> > $ git svn clone https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c -T trunk -t tags -b branches
> >
> > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> > Using higher level of URL: https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c => https://svn.foo.bar/a
> >
> > W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA
> > layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/a/!svn/bc/100':
> > REPORT of '/a/!svn/bc/100': Could not read chunk size: Secure
> > connection truncated (https://svn.foo.bar)
> > r306 = 83f0c10b988a8f1e77a3f354126c52f0cfdecf76 (trunk)
> > [...]
> > Found possible branch point: https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/trunk =>
> > https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/tags/0.1 , 314
> > Found branch parent: (tags/0.1) ad6a2361d0e69d6288ef226bb335bb4bf3bdd12e
> > Following parent with do_update
> > Successfully followed parent
> > r315 = 3b92c4885b9d6f60241533dd99fa5023eebb1c64 (tags/0.1)
> > r316 = 02e3b828b4f11c5fab9d10d85076a8ff209afa00 (trunk)
> > [...]
> >
> > However, it seems I just get the info about the revisions (shows up
> > nicely in gitk) but no content at all.  The config file reads:

I'm really sorry, I mixed up the config files. :( So I actually get this for the first example not the second:

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
         bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://foo.bar/a
        fetch = b/c/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
        branches = b/c/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
        tags = b/c/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

Which looks good I guess... But to be a bit more clear about what this actually gives me in the directory I just cloned to, and this is the problem:

$ git checkout -f master Already on branch "master" $ ls -a . .. .git $ du -hs .git/objects 186K .git/objects

There should be hundreds of files here, several MB of code. So something has gone seriously wrong here --- or at least did not work the way I expected it to. The .git/objects in the second example contains 5.7 MB data. More stats:

$ git rev-list --all | wc -l
99
$ git tag -l
$ git branch -a
* master
  tags/0.1
  tags/0.1.1
  tags/0.2.0
  tags/0.2.1
  trunk

No tags (I mistook some of the branches for tags in the first post), but some branches all containing no files, though, still claiming to be clean...

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> >
> >
> > If I instead do:
> >
> > $ git svn clone https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/trunk
> > I get all content in trunk and their revision history, but as expected

> That looks like what you want.  Isn't it?

Second example works just as expected.

I assume the listed commands below are assumed to work with the second example? They doesn't seem to do any good to my first example.

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> With that config, I would expect:
>
> git svn fetch
>    pull updates for trunk and all branches and tags from the svn
>    server.
>
> git checkout -b trunk remotes/git-svn
>    checkout the current trunk
>
> git svn rebase
>    fetch and rebase trunk or current branch.  git svn should determine
>    the right git branch from refs/remotes to rebase against.
>
> Does that help any?

Given the bad info I posted you did a great job, I really didn't intend to waste the lists time. Thanks! Though, my problem still remains. Given the new information, do you get any other ideas on what I do wrong?