git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

There is very small public SVN repo that I'm trying to clone with SVN,
and seems to trigger a big in git-svn.

Steps to repro, and error message:

$  git svn clone -T trunk --ignore-paths releases
http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git
r3 = 30548c9192aefcde23337f70542ab59e193a1b9e (trunk)
usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>
fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
$ git version
git version 1.6.2.4.10.g2254d <== this is maint as of right now

The same problem exists with master as of right now (v1.6.3-rc3-12-gb79376c)

On a different box it succeeded -- this was a Fedora 9 box, with git
from rpms. I did have to drop the '--ignore-paths' paramater though:
$ git --version
git version 1.6.0.6

any hints as to what could be wrong? The repository is small and
pretty vanilla afaics...

cheers,



martin
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