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git svn bug?

Subject: git svn bug?

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3 messages between Oct 2, 2008 and Oct 2, 2008.

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Ark Xu· Oct 2, 2008, 08:50 UTC · lore
Hi guys,
   I like git very much so I also use git svn for subversion repo.
   Now I got a tough problem which stopping me for any svn related  
operations. There is a file log4j.xml that is somehow strange because  
when I fetch it, i got the following message:

tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml has mode 120000 but is not a link at /opt/local/bin/git-svn line 3230. M tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml

   And then, all the operation will lead to :
Checksum mismatch: branches/5.3/tms-service/src/test/resources/ 
log4j.xml 51031cbb0e1a2e878e4a3836cf0baa9b80a037a5
expected: fab6daef9fc355b9342e26047f5d0141
      got: 0e7e9081d608c80d2de0340ba5cd1600
Could anybody help?

regards, Ark

Björn Steinbrink· Oct 2, 2008, 14:49 UTC · re: Ark Xu · lore

Re: git svn bug?

On 2008.10.02 16:50:45 +0800, Ark Xu wrote:
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> Hi guys,
>
>   I like git very much so I also use git svn for subversion repo.
>
>   Now I got a tough problem which stopping me for any svn related  
> operations. There is a file log4j.xml that is somehow strange because  
> when I fetch it, i got the following message:
>
> tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml has mode 120000 but is not a  
> link at /opt/local/bin/git-svn line 3230.
> M	tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml
>
>   And then, all the operation will lead to :
> Checksum mismatch: branches/5.3/tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml 
> 51031cbb0e1a2e878e4a3836cf0baa9b80a037a5
> expected: fab6daef9fc355b9342e26047f5d0141
>      got: 0e7e9081d608c80d2de0340ba5cd1600
>
> Could anybody help?
Which git version? And is your /tmp large enough to store that file?
Björn
Deskin Miller· Oct 2, 2008, 14:59 UTC · re: Björn Steinbrink · lore

Re: git svn bug?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 2008.10.02 16:50:45 +0800, Ark Xu wrote:
>>   Now I got a tough problem which stopping me for any svn related
>> operations. There is a file log4j.xml that is somehow strange because
>> when I fetch it, i got the following message:
>>
>> tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml has mode 120000 but is not a
>> link at /opt/local/bin/git-svn line 3230.
>> M     tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml
>>
>>   And then, all the operation will lead to :
>> Checksum mismatch: branches/5.3/tms-service/src/test/resources/log4j.xml
>> 51031cbb0e1a2e878e4a3836cf0baa9b80a037a5
>> expected: fab6daef9fc355b9342e26047f5d0141
>>      got: 0e7e9081d608c80d2de0340ba5cd1600
>
> Which git version? And is your /tmp large enough to store that file?

I've had issues similar to this when I did Ctrl+C during git svn fetch. Prior to the issue you've pointed out popping up, though, I could compare the repo against another git svn fetch which was not interrupted, and the commits would diverge at some point. When I looked into the commit which diverged, the commit object was present in my interrupted repo, but the diff was empty, while it was non-empty in the other repo.

It seems there's an issue with git svn fetch atomically fetching and updating its refs. I've not had time to investigate further, but I certainly want to.

In the meantime, I worked around it on initial fetch from a big svn repository by using git svn fetch -r1:n , and increasing n in increments, so it could run to completion without me interrupting it.

This was seen using git 1.5.4.3 from Ubuntu.
Deskin Miller

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