From: Anand Kumria Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:42:25 GMT Subject: Re: [bug] git svn clone failing with invalid diff stream Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BCDD25F.4030406@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Anand Kumria venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2010 08:48: >> Hi, >> >> Using both git 1.7.0.4 and 1.5.6.5 I am unable to clone the Subversion >> respository for Serendipity. >> >> URL: svn://svn.berlios.de/serendipity >> >> It fails consistently on r1341 with: >> >> (1.5.6.5): Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff >> stream: [tgt] insn 335 starts beyond the target view position at >> /usr/bin/git-svn line 3856 >> >> and >> >> (1.7.0.4): Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff >> stream: [tgt] insn 335 starts beyond the target view position at >> /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 5047 >> >> On, seemingly UTF-8 encoded data. Any ideas / pointers would be appreciated. > > That message actually comes from the underlying svn diff itself. To me > it looks like a problem with the underlying fsfs on the server: > > http://www.szakmeister.net/fsfsverify/ > > hg convert runs into the same problem, btw. Thanks - I was afraid I was doing something incorrect or it might have been some other issue at my end. I've reached out to the Berlios and Subversion guys, since the page on fsfsverify seems to indicate it is a hard to reproduce problem needing a test case; and this appears to be one. Cheers, Anand