git svn clone terminating prematurely (I think)

Reposting this with a better subject than (unknown) . . .

Hi All,

First off I am a new user to git, I'm not a git developer or power
user.  Am I in the right mailing list?  If not could somebody point me
where I could get some help from experienced git people?

Here's the problem:
I need some help getting my subversion repository cloned over to git.
Our svn repository has about 12,000 commits, when I run
git svn clone -s  -A authors.txt
svn+ssh://csvn <at> source.res.ourdomain.com/home/svn/sem sem
It runs for about 2h 15m then completes with no error messages. I have
also cloned starting at revision 6300, about the middle of the svn
repository, and I get the same results as below.

After cloning, I cd into the sem directory and run

$ git log
fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'

$ git log --all  # this seems to work

$ git branch -a # shows only about half the branches that should have
been cloned

$ ls -al sem
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   3 git      other        512 Jan 10 20:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x   6 git      root         512 Jan 10 20:58 ../
drwxr-xr-x   9 git      other        512 Jan 10 23:13 .git/

I think this means the clone terminated prematurely but other than
that I'm stuck. There were no error messages from the clone.  Could
somebody give me some suggestions on what to try?  I haven't found the
answer via google yet.

Thank you for any help.

-- 
Steven Line
303-910-1212
sline00@gmail.com

Hi Steven,

Steven Line wrote:

First off I am a new user to git, I'm not a git developer or power
user.  Am I in the right mailing list?  If not could somebody point me
where I could get some help from experienced git people?

This is the right place.  The Git community believes in maintaining
just one mailing list.

I need some help getting my subversion repository cloned over to git.
Our svn repository has about 12,000 commits, when I run
git svn clone -s  -A authors.txt
svn+ssh://csvn <at> source.res.ourdomain.com/home/svn/sem sem
It runs for about 2h 15m then completes with no error messages. I have
also cloned starting at revision 6300, about the middle of the svn
repository, and I get the same results as below.

$ git branch -a # shows only about half the branches that should have
been cloned

Interesting.  From the git-svn-id of the most recent commit, can you
tell if there's anything especially fishy about the revision where
git-svn stops?  Your Subversion repository is probably broken in some
way, but git-svn should not use that as an excuse for appearing to
finish successfully while failing in reality.

Cheers.

-- Ram

Hi Ram, thank you for the reply.  Se below . . .

quoted

I need some help getting my subversion repository cloned over to git.
Our svn repository has about 12,000 commits, when I run
git svn clone -s  -A authors.txt
svn+ssh://csvn <at> source.res.ourdomain.com/home/svn/sem sem
It runs for about 2h 15m then completes with no error messages. I have
also cloned starting at revision 6300, about the middle of the svn
repository, and I get the same results as below.

quoted

$ git branch -a # shows only about half the branches that should have
been cloned

Interesting.  From the git-svn-id of the most recent commit, can you
tell if there's anything especially fishy about the revision where
git-svn stops?  Your Subversion repository is probably broken in some
way, but git-svn should not use that as an excuse for appearing to
finish successfully while failing in reality.

Well by your question it seems you expect this clone to fail at the
same svn revision number
each time.  I spent all day today trying to figure out what that
revision was. However it doesn't
seem to be failing at the same svn revision each time.

There are about 12813 revisions in our svn repository so I started
attempting clones from successively later
and later revisions both to figure which revision they repeatedly
failed on (it was never the same one) and to see
if I could coax a successful clone to occur.  Originally I started at
revision 1, then incremented to 6300, then 8000, then 10000, then
12,500, then finally 12,700.  Finally the attempt starting at svn
revision 12,700 succeeded and the resulting git repository
seems to work. All the attempts prior to 12,700 (starting at 1, 6300,
8000, 10000, and 12,500) failed while
importing different revisions, none of them showed error messages.

One thing that I am suspect of is that I'm not able to log directly
into the machine running git, it's on a remote server in
Atlanta while I'm in Colorado. I'm running the 'git svn clone' using
nohup, but in every case of a corrupt git repository
the connection between me and the server dies before the git completes
(the connection dies, but I log in again and run
ps -ef and I see the multiple git processes still running.  They run
for up to several hours longer, then terminate).  I should be
ok since I'm using nohup, but coincidentally the only clone that
succeeded was the one where the network connection
never disconnected during the clone

Not sure if this helps but here are some numbers:
Both the svn repository and git machine are Solaris 10
Svn revision 1.6.12 CollabNet
Git version 1.7.6.1

Thank you.


-- 
Steven Line
303-910-1212
sline00@gmail.com

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

Interesting.  From the git-svn-id of the most recent commit, can you
tell if there's anything especially fishy about the revision where
git-svn stops?  Your Subversion repository is probably broken in some
way,

I wouldn't necessarily assume that.  My first hunch would have been
that this is some variation on the SIGPIPE bug[1].  The usual
workaround for that[2] is to get git-svn to continue by running "git
svn fetch" again.  Nobody's fixed it because nobody's stared at the
SVN perl bindings for long enough to find the cause.

Modern git versions produce a message in that case, though:

	error: git-svn died of signal 13

So you are probably running into something else.  I only mention this
for context.

Does svnsync work for making a local copy of whatever subset of the
repository is relevant?  Alternatively (this is basically the same),
is the network connection stable enough for e.g. svnrdump[3] to get a
dump?

Sorry for the trouble, and hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134936/focus=134940
[2] Maybe it deserves a note in the manpage.
[3] http://repo.or.cz/w/svnrdump.git

Thank you Jonathan.

I had a breakthrough yesterday on this problem.  To make a long story
short my ssh connection to the server where I was running 'nohup git
svn clone' was timing out.  Additionally the nohup I was using wasn't
really protecting the git svn clone process so an hour or two after
the ssh disconnected, the git would terminate leaving me with an
imcomplete repository.  I don't understand why the nohup wasn't
working yet.  So my problem wasn't due to git itself.

I started my most recent git svn clone and it's now been running for
18 hours.  I'm optimistic that I've solved the problem.  If my git
does terminate early then I'll try a 'git svn fetch' to complete the
clone, based on what you said in your post.

-- 
Steven Line
303-910-1212
sline00@gmail.com

Steven, 

In this case nohup seems like a pain.  There is a utility called "screen" available on most unixes.
It allows you to create a virtual terminal that you can detach from.  After you detach you can log out, some time later log back in and then reattach.

Steve

On Jan 12, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Steven Line wrote:

Thank you Jonathan.

I had a breakthrough yesterday on this problem.  To make a long story
short my ssh connection to the server where I was running 'nohup git
svn clone' was timing out.  Additionally the nohup I was using wasn't
really protecting the git svn clone process so an hour or two after
the ssh disconnected, the git would terminate leaving me with an
imcomplete repository.  I don't understand why the nohup wasn't
working yet.  So my problem wasn't due to git itself.

I started my most recent git svn clone and it's now been running for
18 hours.  I'm optimistic that I've solved the problem.  If my git
does terminate early then I'll try a 'git svn fetch' to complete the
clone, based on what you said in your post.

-- 
Steven Line
303-910-1212
sline00@gmail.com
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