I have seen this behaviour, though never determined the root cause .Probably the simplest thing you can do without access to the server is to put your git svn fetch into a bash while loop, like so: while ! git svn fetch; do :; done; jon On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am trying to git-svn clone > https://svn.calendarserver.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/ > and I cannot say I am much succesful. Every couple of hundred of commits > I get this: > > > RA layer request failed: REPORT of > '/repository/calendarserver/!svn/vcc/default': could not connect to > server (https://svn.calendarserver.org) at > /usr/local/share/perl5/Git/SVN/Ra.pm line 290. > > > and git-svn stops. When restarting git svn fetch, it fetches > another couple of hundred commits and then fails again. Given > that there are 11000+ commits just in the trunk, I am afraid of > a long long night. Did anybody managed to clone this repo? Or is > there some way how to make git-svn more patient (this error > means the SVN server is a bit flakey, right)? > > Best, > > Matěj > -- > http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > > A day without sunshine is like night. > -- 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