Re: Problem using git svn clone

[Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>]

"Gustaf Hendeby" <hendeby@gmail.com> writes:
> Let me clarify. When trying to check out the module with tags, the first
> example I only get the revisions, no content at all!  I have added some more
> info on this below.

If you see the output of the revisions being pulled from svn this
seems very odd.  Does a 'du -sh' in the created directory confirm no
data is there?  Are you sure it isn't just a matter of nothing getting
checked out for you?

> The second case works as I expected it, I included it as reference, and to
> show that it worked (probably not the smartest thing to do I guess).  Hence,
> probably just the first example is of interest.
>
>> The situation is as follows:
>> >
>> > I plan to use git and git svn to track a module in the middle of a SVN
>> > repository (which I have no control over) where I don't have read
>> > access more than to this specific module and the base directory, ie
>> > the layout is similar to this
>> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/trunk
>> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/tags
>> >       https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/branches
>> > and I have read access to https://svm.foo.bar/a,
>> > https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c and below, but nothing else.
>> >
>> > What I want to do is clone the whole thing, including tags and
>> > branches.  I expected to be able to use the following command to do
>> > this (git v1.5.2):
>> >
>> > $ git svn clone https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c -T trunk -t tags -b branches
>> >
>> > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>> > Using higher level of URL: https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c =>
>> https://svn.foo.bar/a
>> >
>> > W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA
>> > layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/a/!svn/bc/100':
>> > REPORT of '/a/!svn/bc/100': Could not read chunk size: Secure
>> > connection truncated (https://svn.foo.bar)
>> > r306 = 83f0c10b988a8f1e77a3f354126c52f0cfdecf76 (trunk)
>> > [...]
>> > Found possible branch point: https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/trunk =>
>> > https://svn.foo.bar/a/b/c/tags/0.1, 314
>> > Found branch parent: (tags/0.1) ad6a2361d0e69d6288ef226bb335bb4bf3bdd12e
>> > Following parent with do_update
>> > Successfully followed parent
>> > r315 = 3b92c4885b9d6f60241533dd99fa5023eebb1c64 (tags/0.1)
>> > r316 = 02e3b828b4f11c5fab9d10d85076a8ff209afa00 (trunk)
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > However, it seems I just get the info about the revisions (shows up
>> > nicely in gitk) but no content at all.  The config file reads:
>
>
> I'm really sorry, I mixed up the config files. :(  So I actually get this
> for the first example not the second:
>
> [core]
>        repositoryformatversion = 0
>        filemode = true
>        bare = false
>        logallrefupdates = true
> [svn-remote "svn"]
>        url = https://foo.bar/a
>        fetch = b/c/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
>        branches = b/c/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
>        tags = b/c/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*
>
> Which looks good I guess...  But to be a bit more clear about what this
> actually gives me in the directory I just cloned to, and this is the
> problem:
>
> $ git checkout -f master

What's in .git/refs/remotes?

Does 'git checkout -b mytrunk refs/remotes/git-svn' work?

> Already on branch "master"
> $ ls -a
> .  ..  .git
> $ du -hs .git/objects
> 186K    .git/objects

A du of the entire .git dir would be more informative.

+ seth