git svn fails to work

> I have been tying for a week to get git svn to work. If i do a 'git clone'
> and if falls over 'git svn fetch' picks up from where it left off, but on
> completion I can only see the older stuff if at all and a 'git clone rebase'
> eithr shoud up unreconsilable differences or refuses to execute the command
> at all, gust giving uphelpfull help afaics.

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Aaron Gray
> <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I have been tying for a week to get git svn to work. If i do a 'git
>> clone'
>> and if falls over 'git svn fetch' picks up from where it left off, but on
>> completion I can only see the older stuff if at all and a 'git clone
>> rebase'
>> eithr shoud up unreconsilable differences or refuses to execute the
>> command
>> at all, gust giving uphelpfull help afaics.
>
> I am afraid if you expect anyone to help you with you, you have to spend
> a little more time to describe your problem. You have not mentioned what
> version of Git you use, what operating system, what is layout of your SVN
> repo, what commands and with what options you used and what was their
> output. Without that information no one will be able to help you...
>
>> Otherwise I am giving up and either going back to svn or over to
>> mercurial.
>
> Yeah, right... These kind of threats will make people who want to help to
> come running....

>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Aaron Gray
>> <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been tying for a week to get git svn to work. If i do a 'git
>>> clone'
>>> and if falls over 'git svn fetch' picks up from where it left off, but on
>>> completion I can only see the older stuff if at all and a 'git clone
>>> rebase'
>>> eithr shoud up unreconsilable differences or refuses to execute the
>>> command
>>> at all, gust giving uphelpfull help afaics.
>>
>> I am afraid if you expect anyone to help you with you, you have to spend
>> a little more time to describe your problem. You have not mentioned what
>> version of Git you use, what operating system, what is layout of your SVN
>> repo, what commands and with what options you used and what was their
>> output. Without that information no one will be able to help you...
>>
>>> Otherwise I am giving up and either going back to svn or over to
>>> mercurial.
>>
>> Yeah, right... These kind of threats will make people who want to help to
>> come running....
>
> Sorry, but I am very frustrated with the whole thing, there is not real user
> guides for git-svn other that third party ones which seem to be wrong.
>
> I am using Fedora 10, GIT 1.6.0.6, the svn repo is standard layout although
> I only want trunk, it here :-
>
>   svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm
>
> This is quite a big repository 65000 or more revisions.
>
> The commands
>
>   git svn clone http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk
>
> when connection fails I do a :-
>
>   git svn fetch
>
> gitweb is not updating at all to show any change in the repository.
>
> Aaron
>
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> gitweb is showing a repository last changed on the front page 2 days ago 
> but in the summary is showing a change 3 hours ago.
> 
> I am getting different behaviours from different repositories. on gitweb 
> and in their base directories some have file some donot. The ones with 
> files have not been checked out and will not commit either.
> 
> What I need is a well written set of instructions on how to import both 
> small and large SVN repositories and how to serve them and how to get 
> gitweb to reflect actually what is going on.
> 

>
> The commands
>
>   git svn clone http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk
>
> when connection fails I do a :-
>
>   git svn fetch
>
> gitweb is not updating at all to show any change in the repository.