Re: git svn clone just stops

[Mark Jerkovic <mjerkovic@aconex.com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:15 -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> Mark Jerkovic <mjerkovic@aconex.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am new to Git and I am attempting to clone a SVN repository
> > (containing approximately 60,000 commits) to Git.
> > 
> > Using Git v1.6.0.4 with the following command:
> > 
> > git svn clone https://path/to/svn/repo/trunk project.git
> > --authors-file=svnauthors.txt --no-metadata
> > 
> > the process just ends without any messages and the Git repository is
> > empty.  I have attempted this four times already, and each time it has
> > stopped after a different revision, so I can't pin it down to a
> > particular commit.
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Any chance you're OOM-ing (extremely large file) or running
> out of space somewhere?  What exit code do you get when it exits?
> 
> > Has anyone experienced this before?  Is there a log anywhere that
> > records what is happening during this process?
> 
> Not without error messages of some sort.  git svn was designed with poor
> network conditions in mind and clone is resumable, so you can just
> resume like this:
> 
>    cd project.git && git svn fetch
> 
That is an excellent tip.  Thanks a lot!
> I wouldn't use --no-metadata at this point, though, as it makes it much
> harder to debug/fix things or recover from errors.
> 
> Once you're comfortable with it, you should be able to write
> "git filter-branch" invocation to remove the metadata lines.
I have done some more investigating and it appears that at some point a
branch was moved to replace our trunk.  When the migration process hits
this I it goes back to the beginning and starts migrating the branch
history too.  I think when it gets to the end of it is not able to
resume from the "move" point.  

I will try your resume tip to see if I can get it started again.

Many thanks,
Mark.
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