Peter Kirk <peter.kirk@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using git version 1.6.0.3, which I compiled myself from sources on my > linux/amd64 box which runns kubuntu 8.10. > > Now, when I do "git svn clone" to retrieve the entire history from the svn > server then everything works fine. Then I start working with this, commit some > myself, and run "git svn rebase" frequently. What happens (and I don't see the > pattern) is that *some* commits that are retrieved via "git svn rebase" are > broken...they don't contain a valid author field, the date is at 1970 and, most > importantly (for me) the commit message is empty except for the "git-svn-id:" > line that "git svn" adds automatically. The diff is fine, and I can still use > the checkout fine...but I cannot view the log-message/author/date of some > commits, which becomes tiresome quickly. > The only way to "fix" these broken commits is to do a clean "git svn clone", > but as new commits are pulled via "git svn rebase", my repository will again > become polluted with broken commits. Weird. Does this happen on other repositories you may use as well? Do you know of any strange hooks or otherwise non-standard setup with the SVN server? Which version of the SVN perl bindings are you using? -- 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