git svn clone failure

git svn clone failure

[Gabor Gombas]

Hi,

Trying to clone an SVN repository I get:

fatal: ambiguous argument '907deda1c3ca2b42352e1ac2ce9f0dc57c177818^..db1341887792beec3ca68dc3196b40b231fdb545': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
rev-list 907deda1c3ca2b42352e1ac2ce9f0dc57c177818^..db1341887792beec3ca68dc3196b40b231fdb545: command returned error: 128

907deda1c is the very first commit on the SVN trunk, and it does not
have a parent:

$ git cat-file -p 907deda1c
tree 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
author loomis <loomis@60caac41-0bef-0310-ae6f-f8fb43407fe4> 1107528823 +0000
committer loomis <loomis@60caac41-0bef-0310-ae6f-f8fb43407fe4> 1107528823 +0000

add initial web pages and structure

git-svn-id: https://svn.lal.in2p3.fr/LCG/QWG/templates/trunk@3 60caac41-0bef-0310-ae6f-f8fb43407fe4

Gabor

git svn clone failure

[Lachlan Deck]

Hi there,

I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting  
started with git) and it keeps failing with:
...
r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'

I'm using git version 1.6.2
Mac OS X 10.5.6. git installed via macports with svn support.

Any ideas? How do I find out why it's failing?
Thanks.

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck

Re: git svn clone failure

[Markus Heidelberg]

Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting  
> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
> ...
> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'

Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?

I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL, it
doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
though.

Markus

Re: git svn clone failure

[Lachlan Deck]

On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:

> Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting
>> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
>> ...
>> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
>> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
>
> Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?

A few thousand out, yes.

> I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,  
> it
> doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
> though.

Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://..
But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?

Thanks

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck

Re: git svn clone failure

[Markus Heidelberg]

Lachlan Deck, 28.03.2009:
> On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> 
> > Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting
> >> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
> >> ...
> >> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
> >> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
> >
> > Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?
> 
> A few thousand out, yes.
> 
> > I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,  
> > it
> > doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
> > though.
> 
> Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://..
> But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?

At least I don't have more info about it except for this:
I use Gentoo Linux and the git ebuild (I have the distribution package
installed, but use the self-compiled git) says

    "Per Gentoo bugs #223747, #238586, when subversion is built"
    "with USE=dso, there may be weird crashes in git-svn. You"
    "have been warned."

I have subversion compiled with dso (Enable runtime module search), it's
enabled per default. And since it worked, I didn't change it. But it
would be interesting to see, if this error has something to do with it.
Maybe I'll try it out.

Markus

Re: git svn clone failure

[Lachlan Deck]

On 29/03/2009, at 2:20 AM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:

> Lachlan Deck, 28.03.2009:
>> On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
>>
>>> Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just  
>>>> getting
>>>> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
>>>> ...
>>>> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
>>>> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
>>>
>>> Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?
>>
>> A few thousand out, yes.
>>
>>> I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,
>>> it
>>> doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
>>> though.
>>
>> Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://..
>> But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?
>
> At least I don't have more info about it except for this:
> I use Gentoo Linux and the git ebuild (I have the distribution package
> installed, but use the self-compiled git) says
>
>    "Per Gentoo bugs #223747, #238586, when subversion is built"
>    "with USE=dso, there may be weird crashes in git-svn. You"
>    "have been warned."
>
> I have subversion compiled with dso (Enable runtime module search),  
> it's
> enabled per default. And since it worked, I didn't change it. But it
> would be interesting to see, if this error has something to do with  
> it.
> Maybe I'll try it out.

It may well have been a network issue for me when I tried the other  
day. It seemed to work fine now.

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck