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

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

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bingo! Yes,
>
> ~$ which git-cat-file
> /usr/bin/git-cat-file
> ~$ /usr/bin/git version
> git version 1.5.6.3

Actually, after removing the git-core package and all its dependencies...

# same git version that succeeds on Fedora 9, here says:
$ git svn  clone  -T trunk  http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git
usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>
error closing pipe: Broken pipe at
/home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3252
cat-file --batch: command returned error: 129

error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at
/home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 0
error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at
/home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 0
$ git version
git version 1.6.0.6

# a newer git says...
$ git svn clone -T trunk --ignore-paths releases
http://paintweb.googlecode.com/svn paintweb.git
usage: git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>
Unexpected result returned from git cat-file at
/home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3526
Failed to read object 4b90eef95225bb9e34000e050d0cac8b84ab36f6 at
/home/martin/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3527.

$ git version
git version 1.6.2.4.10.g2254d

... the plot thickens...

There is nothing in my env that would confuse git -- and my PATH has
~/bin as the first entry, trumping everything else. So perhaps the
debian package had nothing to do with this?

Perl SVN bindings? How do I debug that side of things?

cheers,



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