Hi Ioannis, On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, ioannis.kap...@rbs.com wrote:
> Git can fail with a "malformed index nnn" error or cause a segmentation > fault when executing the "git svn clone" command. > > [...] > > Fortunately, a patch has already been submitted to subversion with > (github) revision a074af86c8764404b28ce99d0bedcb668a321408 (at > https://github.com/apache/subversion/commit/a074af86c8) on the trunk to > handle this and a couple of other similar cases. But by the looks of it > has not been picked up yet in the latest subversion 1.9.4 release or the > 1.9.x branch, perhaps because this patch was identified in sanity checks > rather than coming out from a perceivable production issue? This is an excellent analysis and a silver lining on the horizon to resolve those vexing git svn issues we keep having in Git for Windows. Do you have a test case that is reliably reproducing the issue? > Although this issue is not in the Git source code, I thought reporting > this error here first since it is Git that stresses the subversion perl > bindings in such a level to cause the failure. Perhaps the patch can be > applied first in those git binary releases that include subversion (I > believe Git for windows is such a case) while in the mean time I submit > this case for consideration in the subversion bug tracking system. Yes, absolutely. Thank you for reporting this! > The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Oh. I am sorry! > This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. This footer does not make much sense when sending a mail to a public mailing list ;-) Ciao, Johannes -- 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
