Re: git-svn aborts with "Use of uninitialized value $u" when a non-svn-backed branch is present in remote

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Please don't drop Cc:, re-adding git@vger and Christian

Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Christian (Cc-ed) also noticed the problem a few weeks ago
> > and took a more drastic approach by having git-svn die
> > instead of warning:
> > http://mid.gmane.org/1462604323-18545-1-git-send-email-chriscool@tuxfamily.org
> > which landed as commit 523a33ca17c76bee007d7394fb3930266c577c02
> > in git.git: https://bogomips.org/mirrors/git.git/patch?id=523a33ca17c7
> >
> > Is dying here too drastic and maybe warn is preferable?
> 
> In my opinion this is too drastic. It keeps me from storing
> git-specific data on a git-svn mirror.

I tend to agree, but will wait to see what Christian thinks.

> Here's my setup:
>  - My git-svn mirror uses git-svn to create a git repo that mirrors
> svn history. This repository is then pushed to a clean bare
> repository. So far so good. Only svn-sourced branches exist.
>  - The git-svn mirror script also saves a copy of the git-svn
> configuration used to generate the git mirror repository in an
> "orphaned" branch called something like 'git-svn-conf'. This is
> completely separate from the svn history, and exists only for my
> git-svn purposes.
>  - On the "client" side, another script I wrote knows how to parse the
> git-svn configuration in that 'git-svn-conf' branch to properly
> reconfigure git-svn on the local machine, so I can use 'git svn'
> themselves to commit, etc., and still generate the same hashes so
> there's no forked history during the next mirror fetch.
> 
> Long story short: I have branches which aren't in SVN history for
> automated git-svn purposes.
> 
> It appears that simply skipping the branch in that loop fixes the
> issue. However, I don't know how the metadata is stored and what
> exactly that loop does, so I may be creating hidden side effects I
> have been lucky enough to not trigger yet.