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Re: git-svn intermittent issues with absent_file

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EWEaldwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2009, 21:35 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Matthias Andree<matthias.andree@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:

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> So, the common idea set is apparently down to (a) intermittent server issues
> (I've asked for the relevant log excerpts) and (b) Cygwin issues, and we
> should keep in mind (c) git-svn, or svn bindings/libraries, losing the
> causes error conditions from (a) or (b) and git-svn just reporting later
> symptoms (absent files). More on the other experiments once I get around to
> them.

Won't help if it's a server issue, but if your suspicion towards git-svn (or anything else you have the source for) increases, it may be worth trying bbchop: http://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop That is like git-bisect, except it can cope with intermittent bugs.

Ealdwulf
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  1. Matthias AndreeAug 27, 2009
  2. Eric WongAug 27, 2009
  3. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  4. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  5. Ealdwulf WuffingaAug 29, 2009

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