Re: git svn clone segmentation faul issue

Hi Ioannis,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, Ioannis.Kappas@rbs.com wrote:

Git can fail with a "malformed index nnn" error or cause a segmentation
fault when executing the "git svn clone" command. 

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Fortunately, a patch has already been submitted to subversion with
(github) revision a074af86c8764404b28ce99d0bedcb668a321408 (at
https://github.com/apache/subversion/commit/a074af86c8) on the trunk to
handle this and a couple of other similar cases. But by the looks of it
has not been picked up yet in the latest subversion 1.9.4 release or the
1.9.x branch, perhaps because this patch was identified in sanity checks
rather than coming out from a perceivable production issue?

This is an excellent analysis and a silver lining on the horizon to
resolve those vexing git svn issues we keep having in Git for Windows.

Do you have a test case that is reliably reproducing the issue?

Although this issue is not in the Git source code, I thought reporting
this error here first since it is Git that stresses the subversion perl
bindings in such a level to cause the failure. Perhaps the patch can be
applied first in those git binary releases that include subversion (I
believe Git for windows is such a case) while in the mean time I submit
this case for consideration in the subversion bug tracking system.

Yes, absolutely. Thank you for reporting this!

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Johannes