git-svn clone repositotory without files from codeplex

Arkadiy Shapkin· Dec 9, 2011, 12:28 UTC · lore

Hi

I can't clone svn repository from codeplex https://vld.svn.codeplex.com/svn/vld . Repository generated by git-svn doesn't contain files, only log messages.

WBR, Arkadiy Shapkin* *

Konstantin Khomoutov· Dec 9, 2011, 15:46 UTC · re: Arkadiy Shapkin · lore

Re: git-svn clone repositotory without files from codeplex

On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:28:31 +0400 Arkadiy Shapkin <dragon.artec3d@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't clone svn repository from codeplex 
> https://vld.svn.codeplex.com/svn/vld . Repository generated by
> git-svn doesn't contain files, only log messages.

I suspect that that might be a problem with the fact codeplex seems to not really provide Subversion repos but rather runs some sort of a shim to interface Subversion clients with their TFS instance which is what really hosts non-Mercurial repos.

What makes me think that way is that even svnrdump (a tool for remote dumping of Subversion repos appeared in v1.7) fails to dump that repo (my idea was to dump the vld repo then load it into a local repo and then try cloning the resulting repo using git-svn). I tried svnrdump on another two randomly picked Codeplex Subversion repos, and it failed on all of them in the same way it failed for vld. Hence maybe you should bring this issue with the Codeplex support team.

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