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From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] fail to svn clone debian's kernel repository
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:08:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8B21A8.6000603@hartwork.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610160524.GA24435@pengutronix.de>

On 06/10/09 18:05, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> using git v1.6.3.1 from Debian I fail to successfully run
> 
> 	git svn clone svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6
> 
> It runs for some time and then ends in:
> 
> 	...
> 	r4695 = f552d98386b301cbeaa3b5a20f9e9d5d3c9c4886 (git-svn)
> 		M	debian/arch/alpha/defines
> 	r4696 = 18c0a37de057d24955b66e8f49db0791f6018288 (git-svn)
> 	Found possible branch point: svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6 => svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/trunk/linux-2.6, 4731
> 	Initializing parent: git-svn@4731
> 	W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 101, path '/dists/sid/linux-2.6'
> 	W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history.
> 	This may take a while on large repositories
> 	Found possible branch point: svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/sid/kernel/linux-2.6 => svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6, 4094
> 	Initializing parent: git-svn@4094
> 	Found branch parent: (git-svn@4731) e71da640593b63647fb23f915acee03f02fbaa98
> 	Following parent with do_switch
> 	Invalid filesystem path syntax: Cannot replace a directory from within at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4388

I have run into a similar problem, both with Git 1.7.0 as well as with
Git via Git.

Has anybody been able to work around this?
Is anybody working on a fix?

Thanks,



Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 16:05 [BUG?] fail to svn clone debian's kernel repository Uwe Kleine-König
2009-06-10 18:42 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-03-01  2:08 ` Sebastian Pipping [this message]
2010-03-02 19:54   ` [BUG?] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-03-03  1:20     ` Sebastian Pipping
2010-03-03 14:33       ` Thomas Rast
2010-03-04  2:03         ` Sebastian Pipping

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