# git svn bug?

3 messages from 2008-10-02 to 2008-10-02. Participants: Ark Xu, Björn Steinbrink, Deskin Miller.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15744

## Ark Xu, 2008-10-02 08:50

Subject: git svn bug?
Message-ID: <36C9BCCC-875A-4C65-98E2-0AD486FF8F61@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/36C9BCCC-875A-4C65-98E2-0AD486FF8F61%40gmail.com

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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?

regards,
Ark

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## Björn Steinbrink, 2008-10-02 14:49

Subject: Re: git svn bug?
Message-ID: <20081002144916.GA3644@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081002144916.GA3644%40atjola.homenet
In-Reply-To: <36C9BCCC-875A-4C65-98E2-0AD486FF8F61@gmail.com>

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On 2008.10.02 16:50:45 +0800, Ark Xu wrote:
> 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

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## Deskin Miller, 2008-10-02 14:59

Subject: Re: git svn bug?
Message-ID: <86d4c5e00810020759n6f64f0acx575a1dede5d7aba8@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/86d4c5e00810020759n6f64f0acx575a1dede5d7aba8%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20081002144916.GA3644@atjola.homenet>

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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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