Hello, Eric, Everybody! I need your help getting git-svn to clone a repository.
I had already cloned it once but then a few months ago I discovered the authors map file and it's like the first time I did a checkout using git.... well, perhaps not that much, but close. Seeing the real names of people when using log, blame, etc is a major difference... so, back to my tale of sorts. The thing is that I have already tried to clone it _several_ times and it always breaks at one point or another (or rather, at one revision of a branch or another). I have come to think that it's more or less at the same revisions that it breaks but I'm not 100% certain. What I _think_ is the cause of most of the problems is that in our repo people have misplaced branches _inside_ other branches, at least for a few revisions before realizing their mistake and deleting it. So.... say I have a standard layout. trunk branches tags Then at one point I copy trunk to branches/a Later on I copy trunk to branches/b Later on I copy trunk to branches/b/c (instead of branches/c) And a few revisions later I realize my mistake and copy branches/b/c to branches/c and remove branches/b/c I infer this because I'm seeing that on one of the revisions where git svn usually breaks when fetching has the content of the project inside a directory, like, say I have directories A, B and C in the project and I'm seeing that git svn is fetching a revision where the all the paths of the files are prepended by a directory that looks like a branch, like this: branch_name/A/filea.txt branch_name/A/fileb.txt etc etc Instead of A/filea.txt A/fileb.txt So... throw some ideas around that... and then, could you tell a non-perl developer how to debug it? Perhaps increase verbosity? One of the errors I see often when fetching (my memory tells me that it's associated to the branch-in-branch problem but I'm not completely sure right now), looks like this: 1 [main] perl 5652 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to perl.exe.stackdump And then, in the file: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=0048360C10C rax=0000000601E4BFF8 rbx=000000005219E248 rcx=000000060003A590 rdx=0000000000000000 rsi=000000000000A950 rdi=0000000000000004 r8 =0000000000000000 r9 =0000000000000000 r10=0000000000230000 r11=000000048D78607A r12=0000000000000003 r13=000006FFFFF54A98 r14=0000000601E18030 r15=000006FFFFF54AB0 rbp=0000000000054A88 rsp=000000000022B810 program=C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\perl.exe, pid 5652, thread main cs=0033 ds=002B es=002B fs=0053 gs=002B ss=002B With my very flawed knowledge of perl I have seen that the process is getting to Ra.pm around here: our $AUTOLOAD; sub AUTOLOAD { my $class = ref($_[0]); $AUTOLOAD =~ s/^${class}::(SUPER::)?//; return if $AUTOLOAD =~ m/^[A-Z]/; my $self = shift; no strict 'refs'; my $method = $self->can("invoke_$AUTOLOAD") or die "no such method $AUTOLOAD"; no warnings 'uninitialized'; $method->(@$self, @_); } The value of $AUTOLOAD there is 'finish_report' but I don't know (or at least see) where $method->(@$self, @_) is going. Well... I think that's enough of a mess of a mail (sorry about that). Hope I was able to provide enough information to at least move a little bit forward. Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html