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git-svn - failed to clone repository

Subject: git-svn - failed to clone repository

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4 messages between Jul 23, 2008 and Jul 23, 2008.

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Derek Fawcus· Jul 23, 2008, 16:06 UTC · lore

I tried to create a clone of an svn repository, and it gave up part way through with the following error:

  Incomplete data: Delta source ended unexpectedly at /usr/bin/git-svn line 3858

Looking at the source, this is the call '$reporter->finish-report($pool)' near the end of gs_do_update.

This is using git 1.5.6 from the etch backports repository.

The repository in question was cocotron,  the command being:

  git svn clone http://cocotron.googlecode.com/svn -t tags -b branches -T trunk

It seemed to fail at revision 91,  the last couple of lines of the command output being:

r90 = <hex I can't be bothered to type unless required> (trunk)
        M    Foundation/NSStream/NSFileHandle.m

then followed by the above error. Looking at the actual revision page (http://code.google.com/p/cocotron/source/detail?r=91)

the only thing that stands out as odd is one file claims to be 'too large to diff'. It's ~900k and if one grabs and diffs by hand, the output is only ~70 lines.

So - is this at all related to the 'known bug' mentioned earlier - stopped on line 3856 when using line ending mapping (I'm not using such), or is this something else?

Last, assuming I was to simply grab and apply this changeset by hand, what would I need to do to fix up metadata so that git-svn could continue importing the history? There are about 200 changesets in the whole repository.

Thanks,

DF

SZEDER Gábor· Jul 23, 2008, 17:08 UTC · re: Derek Fawcus · lore

Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:06:59PM +0100, Derek Fawcus wrote:

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> I tried to create a clone of an svn repository,  and it gave
> up part way through with the following error:
> 
>   Incomplete data: Delta source ended unexpectedly at /usr/bin/git-svn line 3858
> 
> Looking at the source,  this is the call '$reporter->finish-report($pool)'
> near the end of gs_do_update.
> 
> This is using git 1.5.6 from the etch backports repository.
> 
> The repository in question was cocotron,  the command being:
> 
>   git svn clone http://cocotron.googlecode.com/svn -t tags -b branches -T trunk

It might not help you, but with svn version 1.4.6 (r28521) (from Ubuntu 8.04) and current git master the above command has just finished successfully.

Gábor

Avery Pennarun· Jul 23, 2008, 19:49 UTC · re: SZEDER Gábor · lore

Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository

On 7/23/08, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@fzi.de> wrote:

> It might not help you, but with svn version 1.4.6 (r28521) (from
>  Ubuntu 8.04) and current git master the above command has just
>  finished successfully.

I believe this was fixed by my patch 29c70e0b3e3183f86f93500882177d0c74069988, which was included in git 1.5.6.2.

Avery

Derek Fawcus· Jul 23, 2008, 22:59 UTC · re: Avery Pennarun · lore

Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:49:00PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> I believe this was fixed by my patch
> 29c70e0b3e3183f86f93500882177d0c74069988, which was included in git
> 1.5.6.2.

Thanks folks.  Building my own 1.5.6.4 allowed the clone to complete.