Re: git-svn woes

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Deskin Miller <deskinm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 15:37, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> >
> > OK... I cannot pretend to be a newbie with git.  However it's the first
> > time I try git-svn and it looks like a couple basic things aren't right.
> >
> > I initially cloned svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd using "git svn clone -s".
> > So far so good.  Now I'm attempting to update using "git svn fetch" but
> > the operation always fails with the following error:
> >
> > |branch_from: /openocd/branches => /openocd/branches/xscale
> > |Found possible branch point:
> > |svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/openocd/branches/xscale =>
> > |svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/branches/xscale, 1231
> > |Initializing parent: xscale@1231
> > |Found branch parent: (xscale) 657522f3f2d1ab8b679fd5b45ce4e9ca1974af18
> > |Following parent with do_switch
> > |Scanning for empty symlinks, this may take a while if you have many empty files
> > |You may disable this with `git config svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround false'.
> > |This may be done in a different terminal without restarting git svn
> > |Malformed network data: Malformed network data at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3333
> 
> I experience the same error as you do with 1.6.2-rc2.  This error is
> occurring in the new broken-symlink-workaround code.  I'm not sure
> what is going on and don't have time to examine it closely, but the
> function where the error occurs doesn't run if the config
> svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround option is set false; doing so makes the
> fetch continue for me.
> 
> Any ideas, Eric?

I've been poking around at this for a bit, I am pretty confused
by this, too.  It's been a rough week, so I could be missing
something obvious...

Junio: since 1.6.2 might be out the door before we have time to resolve
this, I'm leaning towards disabling the broken-symlink-workaround by
default for the release. It seems far more people are negatively
affected by the attempted fix around this rare problem than helped.

> > Thing is... the repository never gets updated and by far.  According to
> > "git svn info", the fetched revision is 1232, while a separate
> > repository using native svn claims to be at revision 1383.
> >
> > Furthermore, the "git svn info" command produces yet more errors, such
> > as:
> >
> > |Use of uninitialized value $lc_author in concatenation (.) or string at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 964.
> > |Use of uninitialized value $lc_rev in concatenation (.) or string at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 965.
> > |Use of uninitialized value $t in gmtime at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4743.
> > |Use of uninitialized value $t in numeric comparison (<=>) at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4744.
> > |Use of uninitialized value $t in subtraction (-) at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4745.
> > |Use of uninitialized value $t in localtime at /home/nico/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4746.
> >
> > This is with git from current "next". I cannot spend time to try fixing
> > the issue myself (especially as I'm not familiar at all with the inner
> > workings of svn), so my only option at the moment is to give up on
> > git-svn altogether.  :-(
> 
> Oh, don't give up quite yet :)
> 
> Deskin Miler

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Eric Wong