git-svn - #object# doesn't exist in the repository at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4706

Question

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git svn dcommit

it starts commiting and then I get this

A   spec/controllers/authenticated_system_spec.rb
A   spec/controllers/sessions_controller_spec.rb
A   spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb
A   spec/fixtures/users.yml
A   spec/helpers/users_helper_spec.rb
A   spec/models/user_spec.rb
A   vendor/plugins/haml/init.rb
A   vendor/plugins/restful_authentication
7235d9150e8beb80a819923a4c871ef4069c6759 doesn't exist in the repository at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 4706
Failed to read object 7235d9150e8beb80a819923a4c871ef4069c6759 at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 570

any ideas how one goes about fixing this one?

tried inspecting with git fsck --full but git repo and all git commands seem to work fine just can't dcommit.

Answer 1

Did you create submodules in your Git repo ?
This blog post seems to mention that as an issue.

As of Jan 2009 git-svn does NOT work with submodules.
There is no good way to map submodules to svn and the perl script that implements git-svn just bombs when doing git svn dcommit.

You need to go back and rewrite history.
You should be able to use git commit --amend.

$ git tag bad mywork~5
$ git checkout bad
$ # make changes here and update the index
$ git commit --amend
$ git rebase --onto HEAD bad mywork

Answer 2

I had this same problem (where I had done a git clone and I'm using git svn). Here's the command I used to remove the submodule:

git filter-branch --index-filter \
'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/the/formerly/misbehaving/module'

I found this wonderful solution on this blog