# git svn can't handle giant commit 2 messages from 2011-12-19 to 2012-01-11. Participants: fREW Schmidt, Carlos Martín Nieto. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29208 ## fREW Schmidt, 2011-12-19 15:28 Subject: git svn can't handle giant commit Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CADVrmKRySXFAAi5WgpgSrephbsY7JLBECF%2Bc9ZX%3D_KnRxn3Lzg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hey guys, I'm working on an import of some repos and I discovered that I can't import a certain commit due to it's size. This is the commit: http://perlcritic.tigris.org/source/browse/perlcritic?view=rev&revision=2676 Clearly it's large :-) Anyway, here's the error message I get: Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff stream: [new] insn 4 overflows the new data section at /opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5653 This is not a deal breaker as I'm fairly sure I can do the clone in pieces as opposed to from the root (I just did the root to get a list of authors anyway) but it seems like there should be a way to handle something like this... -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ``` ## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2012-01-11 13:07 Subject: Re: git svn can't handle giant commit Message-ID: <20120111130708.GB11984@beez.lab.cmartin.tk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120111130708.GB11984%40beez.lab.cmartin.tk In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:28:04AM -0600, fREW Schmidt wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm working on an import of some repos and I discovered that I can't > import a certain commit due to it's size. This is the commit: > > http://perlcritic.tigris.org/source/browse/perlcritic?view=rev&revision=2676 > > Clearly it's large :-) > > Anyway, here's the error message I get: > > Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff stream: > [new] insn 4 overflows the new data section at > /opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 5653 What version of git are you using? I can't find any of those error messages in the git repo, and it looks like it's the svn library that is creating the error message. cmn ```