# git-svn - failed to clone repository

4 messages from 2008-07-23 to 2008-07-23. Participants: Derek Fawcus, SZEDER Gábor, Avery Pennarun.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14632

## Derek Fawcus, 2008-07-23 16:06

Subject: git-svn - failed to clone repository
Message-ID: <20080723160659.GB6705@cisco.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080723160659.GB6705%40cisco.com

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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 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

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## SZEDER Gábor, 2008-07-23 17:08

Subject: Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository
Message-ID: <20080723170838.GK22606@neumann>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080723170838.GK22606%40neumann
In-Reply-To: <20080723160659.GB6705@cisco.com>

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

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## Avery Pennarun, 2008-07-23 19:49

Subject: Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository
Message-ID: <32541b130807231249l1028a757i2f29e9ca6e38fc5a@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/32541b130807231249l1028a757i2f29e9ca6e38fc5a%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20080723170838.GK22606@neumann>

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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

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## Derek Fawcus, 2008-07-23 22:59

Subject: Re: git-svn - failed to clone repository
Message-ID: <20080723225944.GA9310@cisco.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080723225944.GA9310%40cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807231249l1028a757i2f29e9ca6e38fc5a@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

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