what does it mean when git svn clone runs for a long time, completes, and accomplishes nothing

Question

I upgraded git on my mac to 1.7.2. I can no longer get git svn clone or git svn fetch to succeed.

With GIT_TRACE=2, the last words on the subject are:

trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev' '12912' 
trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags-maxRev' '12912'
trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev' '12912' 
trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags-maxRev' '12912'
trace: built-in: git 'gc' '--auto'

git branch -a has nothing to say, nothing is checked out. But no error messages, either.

git svn clone -s https://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gate 

In case someone else care to try this.

I suppose I should ask a question: "Anyone know a way around this?"

EDIT

There is a bug here, but it's completely different from what I claimed. I doubt it has anything to do with the git version.

The URL above is not a stdlayout svn url. If you add another /gate to the end, you will be looking at a stdlayout url. The bug is that git svn should be printing a message to the effect that it cannot find trunk, tags, or branches.

Answer 1

I'll throw this out there because I ran into similar problems with git-svn on a repo that had a long complex branch history (and no standard trunk branch). Git-svn took a long time because it was trying to determine the start of history traversing backwards. It took quite a long time, and in the end failed due to problems in this SVN repo's branch history.

What helped make this reliable was to limit the history I cloned to a specific range using -r {Rev ID start}..HEAD. Perhaps this will help.