On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 12:28 +0300, Janne Kulmala wrote: > I'm trying to clone OpenTTD subversion repository using git-svn from > Debian Lenny testing. Git version is 1.7.0. The clone operationg always > fails at the same revision with same error message. > > I am using the following command: > > git svn clone svn://svn.openttd.org/trunk openttd > > Which gives this error message: > > r1170 = 12fbf791d6e353346315756bf46cbbf75a325833 (refs/remotes/git-svn) > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Core.pm line 584. I don't do perl but this looks like a bug in subversion's perl bindings. This seems to fix it (where fix basically means something like "make sure this warning/error isn't printed again): --- /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Core.pm.oud 2008-08-13 18:32:32.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Core.pm 2010-04-07 10:30:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -581,7 +581,9 @@ my $error_message = $svn_error->strerror(); while ($svn_error) { - $error_message .= ': ' . $svn_error->message(); + if ($svn_error->message()) { + $error_message .= ': ' . $svn_error->message(); + } $svn_error = $svn_error->child(); } return $error_message; > Network connection closed unexpectedly: at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn > line 5047 > > Is this a Debian-specific problem, or a bug in git-svn? No, the exact same problem can be triggered in fedora rawhide too (with git-svn-1.7.0.1-1.fc14.noarch). It seems openttd's svn server terminates the connection after fetching (roughly) 1000 commits. (I'm not sure what happens. I don't know how to debug perl.) A workaround might be to enter the openttd directory you just created and do "git svn fetch" a number of times. (I stopped after it terminated for the third time, around commit 2600. There are over 19.500 commits in that trunk, so that might take a while. Whether you'll end up with a working and correct clone I can't say.) Could it be openttd's svn server doesn't really appreciate the way git-svn uses it (a straightforward svn checkout finished much quicker and in one session)? Regards, Paul Bolle -- 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