On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 15:16, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I've got a fun git-svn bug I can't seem to track down. The > google is no help. I'm just trying to clone a full repo. I'm not > looking to push changes back, and I've done this before, yet now (1.6.3 > and 1.6.3.1) it's not working. > The clone command and error is: > > $ git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -Aauthors http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm/src/ driver-git > Initialized empty Git repository in > /build/jlbec/oracleasm/driver-git/.git/ > A kernel/osm.c > A Configure > A include/osmprivate.h > A include/arch-i386/osmstructures.h > A include/osmlib.h > A include/osmerror.h > A libosm/osmlib.c > A Makefile > r1 = d855bc271ef7dcf70a58ae35fde5dc49f28d3e8e (trunk) > missing UUID at the end of .git/svn/trunk/.rev_db.????????-????-????-????-???????????? at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 4488 > > You can drop the --no-metadata if you like - it doesn't help. Clearly > it's tripping on the first revision. I'm not sure what UUID it's > looking for. The manpage speaks of UUIDs in regards to svk/svnsync, and > I'm not using those. > I suspect the last time I did this was in the 1.5 range (my > distribution has obviously moved on). But I would think this was tested > :-) > > Joel > > -- > > "Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years." > - Bob Brown > > Joel Becker > Principal Software Developer > Oracle > E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx > Phone: (650) 506-8127 The problem here isn't with git-svn; rather, it is with the svn repository at oss.oracle.com claiming a nonsensical UUID. svn uses UUIDs behind the scenes to identify each repository, and git-svn does the same thing. When doing git svn init (or clone, which is just init && fetch) the svn server sends back a UUID which identifies it. When I use wireshark and expand the first HTTP packet back from a good svn server, I see something like the following embedded in the xml tree: <lp3:repository-uuid> 612f8ebc-c883-4be0-9ee0-a4e9ef946e3a </lp3:repository-uuid> However when I do the same with oss.oracle.com I see <lp2:repository-uuid> ????????-????-????-????-???????????? </lp2:repository-uuid> git-svn tries to play along for a while, but the bottom line is that a string of question marks isn't a UUID. There's more about svn's use of UUIDs in the svn book. Perhaps the admin of oss.oracle.com can correct this UUID problem so one can use git-svn with this repository. Deskin Miller -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html