Re: [bug] git svn clone failing with invalid diff stream

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

Anand Kumria venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2010 08:48:

quoted

Hi,

Using both git 1.7.0.4 and 1.5.6.5 I am unable to clone the Subversion
respository for Serendipity.

URL: svn://svn.berlios.de/serendipity

It fails consistently on r1341 with:

(1.5.6.5): Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff
stream: [tgt] insn 335 starts beyond the target view position at
/usr/bin/git-svn line 3856

and

(1.7.0.4): Svndiff data contains invalid instruction: Invalid diff
stream: [tgt] insn 335 starts beyond the target view position at
/usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 5047

On, seemingly UTF-8 encoded data. Any ideas / pointers would be appreciated.

That message actually comes from the underlying svn diff itself. To me
it looks like a problem with the underlying fsfs on the server:

http://www.szakmeister.net/fsfsverify/

hg convert runs into the same problem, btw.

Thanks - I was afraid I was doing something incorrect or it might have
been some other issue at my end.

I've reached out to the Berlios and Subversion guys, since the page on
fsfsverify seems to indicate it is a hard to reproduce problem needing
a test case; and this appears to be one.

Cheers,
Anand