# On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently 8 messages from 2010-07-31 to 2010-07-31. Participants: Benson Margulies, Jonathan Nieder, Bryan Donlan. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24587 ## Benson Margulies, 2010-07-31 01:05 Subject: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTimxqC3oax%3DQ0EppAb-Q7AzHshRkV%3DH%3D6dJDNhqY%40mail.gmail.com ``` git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate This worked with a previous version of git, I am sorry to report that I don't know which one. When I run it with GIT_TRACE=2, the trace ends with: tace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev' '12912' trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags-maxRev' '12912' trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev' '12912' trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags-maxRev' '12912' trace: built-in: git 'gc' '--auto' I get none of the usual 'checked through' output, either. that's all. No errors, no messages. No branches, no contents. Just the wind whistling through the bytes. ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-07-31 01:13 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: <20100731011332.GE5817@burratino> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100731011332.GE5817%40burratino In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Benson, Benson Margulies wrote: > git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate [...] > No errors, no messages. No branches, no contents. Just the > wind whistling through the bytes. Heh - you might be the one to figure out http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134936 But first, it would be good to confirm: - if you run "echo $?" right after such a failure, what status code do you get? - what is the output of "git branch -r" when you finish? Coping strategy: usually with "git svn clone" failures, you can resume where you left off with "git svn fetch". Good luck, Jonathan ``` ## Benson Margulies, 2010-07-31 01:34 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTim4T2NtRpyWfi8_8AVNYmVSqSsTnoA7fj69K-FA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100731011332.GE5817@burratino> ``` On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Benson, > > Benson Margulies wrote: >> git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate > [...] >> No errors, no messages. No branches, no contents. Just the >> wind whistling through the bytes. I don't have $? at hand, but I can tell you that git branch -r says nothing, either. Also, running git fetch has the same result. Prints the same sort of trace lines if tracing, then does nothing > > Heh - you might be the one to figure out > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134936 > > But first, it would be good to confirm: > >  - if you run "echo $?" right after such a failure, what >   status code do you get? > >  - what is the output of "git branch -r" when you finish? > > Coping strategy: usually with "git svn clone" failures, you can resume > where you left off with "git svn fetch". > > Good luck, > Jonathan > ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-07-31 01:35 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: <20100731013509.GG5817@burratino> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100731013509.GG5817%40burratino In-Reply-To: ``` Hi again, Benson Margulies wrote: > I don't have $? at hand, but I can tell you that git branch -r says > nothing, either. Also, running git fetch has the same result. Prints > the same sort of trace lines if tracing, then does nothing. Yes, this seems different from the EPIPE bug, alas. I get a core dump (for some small process, I don’t know what: 1048576 bytes. Died of signal 5 in pthread_mutex_unlock) and git-svn is still going. $ git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/gate/.git/ Sitting there quietly. ltrace tells me it’s busy copying around data. memcpy(0x0aa679d8, "Git::SVN::Ra", 12) = 0x0aa679d8 pthread_getspecific(0, 0xbfb1855c, 1, 0xb76b83a0, 0xaa679d8) = 0x9df2008 realloc(0x0aa679d8, 20) = 0x0aa679d8 memmove(0xaa679e4, 0x8160163, 7, 0xab723e8, 0xa5ae200) = 0xaa679e4 memcpy(0xbfb186dc, "Git::SVN::Ra::SUPER", 19) = 0xbfb186dc memcpy(0xbfb185fc, "Git", 3) = 0xbfb185fc memcpy(0xbfb185fc, "SVN", 3) = 0xbfb185fc memcpy(0xbfb185fc, "Ra", 2) = 0xbfb185fc memcpy(0xbfb185fc, "SUPER", 5) = 0xbfb185fc memmove(0xa89f878, 0xa88f934, 19, 0x80d171d, 0x9df2008) = 0xa89f878 memmove(0xa89f88b, 0x8160032, 2, 0x80ecf3a, 0xa89f878) = 0xa89f88b memmove(0xa89f88d, 0xa257f7f, 10, 0x80ecf3a, 0xa89f878) = 0xa89f88d memcpy(0x0a10cbe0, "\3701%\n\0302%\n82%\nX3%\n", 16) = 0x0a10cbe0 strlen("Git::SVN::Ra") = 12 memmove(0xa89f780, 0x9e16d7c, 12, 0x80d5cd1, 0xa10cbe0) = 0xa89f780 memmove(0xa89f798, 0xa89f780, 12, 0x8083aa6, 0x9df2008) = 0xa89f798 memmove(0xa89f8a8, 0xa89f878, 31, 0x8083aa6, 0x9df2008) = 0xa89f8a8 memcmp(0xa59c590, 0xa89f8bc, 2, 0x45505553, 0x93a3a52) = -1 memcmp(0xa59c590, 0xa89f8bb, 2, 0x45505553, 0x93a3a52) = 0 memcpy(0x0a4ee938, "\0302%\n82%\nX3%\n", 12) = 0x0a4ee938 strcmp("REF", "SVN::Pool") = -1 strlen("SVN::Pool") = 9 strcmp("SCALAR", "_p_apr_pool_t") = -1 strlen("_p_apr_pool_t") = 13 [etc] (strace tells me it’s in conversation with the server.) Hints? ``` ## Benson Margulies, 2010-07-31 01:40 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTik02SXQNi8%2B-rrkT%2BAz8h%3DoP9MAVNCTbZJ1ksDK%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100731013509.GG5817@burratino> ``` I didn't realize that this email was the same as the gmane group and I thus made an unhelpful reply to the other thread you pointed me at. I apologize for the noise. ``` ## Benson Margulies, 2010-07-31 02:28 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikwTqQpVO5SMUgqPr04%3DkAh570zT_RWdxjipid9%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100731013509.GG5817@burratino> ``` $? -> 0 The numbers in tags-maxRev don't go up with each 'fetch'. ``` ## Bryan Donlan, 2010-07-31 02:30 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3Dp92653sWGS4WDgpnXYD90_2-xLLJTTEMLsfvk%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 22:28, Benson Margulies wrote: > $? -> 0 > > The numbers in tags-maxRev don't go up with each 'fetch'. Are you fetching to an already-existing repo? If you are, and it fails relatively quickly, it'd be helpful if you could upload the repo somewhere, so people can quickly test things (when I reproduced the bug on Linux on a new clone, it took tens of minutes before failing). ``` ## Benson Margulies, 2010-07-31 02:32 Subject: Re: On MacOS, 1.7.2, git svn clone seems to fail silently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikwi%3DhwqoEsJ-VQvMh7Z8h-WvjwrxgS05sc6-wz%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hello everyone. There's a problem here, but not even remotely (pardon) the one I thought it was. The right URL in this case with -s is https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate/gate. Note the extra /gate on the end. It would be nice if this was diagnosed in fashion ("Dear user. That doesn't look like a stdlayout svn directory) but the injury is mos def self-inflicted. ```