From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn pulling down duplicate revisions
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:40:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080602054034.GA8366@untitled> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5FB2F28F-4C9A-422E-BF7D-B271471154F9@sb.org>
Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> >Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> >>I started a git-svn clone on a large svn repository, and I noticed
> >>that for various branches, it kept pulling down the exact same
> >>revisions (starting at r1). In other words, if I had 4 branches that
> >>shared common history, their common history all got pulled down 4
> >>times. I double-checked, and the created commit objects were
> >>identical.
> >>
> >>Why was git-svn pulling down the same revisions over and over, when
> >>it
> >>already knows it has a commit object for those revisions?
> >
> >Can you give me an example if a repository and command-line you used
> >that does this? Did you use 'git svn clone -s' or did you manually
> >specify the branch locations in the repo?
> >
> >It could even be a lack of read permissions to the repository root
> >that would cause things like this.
>
> The repository is, unfortunately, a private repo so I can't share it.
> I used `git svn clone -s` to clone it. I have the SVN perl bindings
> v1.4.4 (according to git svn --version).
>
> I definitely have read permissions to the repo root. If I specify to
> only fetch -r 12000:HEAD (there's 14000-odd revisions), it doesn't
> pull down any duplicates, but when I let it start from the root, it
> pulls down hundreds of duplicates for multiple branches.
Can you at least send me the 'svn log -v' output for that repo?
Feel free to leave out the actual log messages and munge the path
names if you can't expose that information.
--
Eric Wong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 0:26 git-svn pulling down duplicate revisions Kevin Ballard
2008-06-02 5:00 ` Eric Wong
2008-06-02 5:06 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-06-02 5:40 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2008-06-02 5:55 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-06-02 10:42 ` Eric Wong
2008-06-02 17:45 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-06-02 17:59 ` Björn Steinbrink
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