Thomas Bleher <bleher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is some problem between git-svn (v1.4.4.1.gad0c3) and MediaWiki > SVN when cloning their repo. > > I just did > $ git-svn init http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3 > $ git-svn fetch -r 2991:3122 > and git-svn went into an endless loop, repeatedly downloading and adding > the same files from r2992 over and over again. I'm not sure that it was 'endless', just unnecesarily repeating itself. commit 6173c197c9a23fa8594f18fd2c856407d4af31c1 (included in 1.4.4.2) should have fixed your problem... > The bad revision can be viewed here: > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=2992 > It adds ~1000 files (mostly small images). > I can check out this revision just fine using the svn command line > client. The latest git-svn in git.git now bundles all the changed files into a delta on the server side; and is significantly faster over most network connections as a result. > I found this problem while cloning this repo a while ago, using a > slightly older version of git (probably 1.4.3, don't remember exactly). > In this repo, some directories appeared in the latest revisions which > were deleted a long time ago. > > You can temporarily browse this repo here: > http://misc.j-crew.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=mediawiki.git > HEAD contains the dir Smarty-2.6.2, which was removed in SVN r3122. > Strangely, my repo misses all commits between r2991 and r3822. > You can see the gap at > http://misc.j-crew.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=mediawiki.git;a=shortlog;h=49e761ba51ee0d0a698999451134acbf2e078c03 > > I didn't notice any strange errors while cloning, but I had to abort and > restart git-svn a few times, so maybe there was some error there? Hmm, it looks like you ran something like: git-svn fetch -r0:2991 and then something along the lines of: git-svn fetch -r3822:HEAD Is that what happened? Looking at the pre-delta git-svn code, it seems that using -r with fetch at any time other than the initial fetch will result in botched history... -- Eric Wong - 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