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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: "Matěj Cepl" <mcepl@redhat.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn troubles with calendarserver SVN repo
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:00:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH3Anroi65OrZZQ0MvmPxgWZXB_eG=1aA-cxqdR=y-uAXsFaNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529C229F.2030504@redhat.com>

My experience is that the fetch will be atomic - it either fetches an
SVN commit or it doesn't.

Failure during dcommit is more painful and I usually find it is
necessary to manually use a git rebase to rebase the commits that
didn't make it to SVN on top of the commits that did.

jon.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 30/11/13 09:54, Jon Seymour wrote:
>> I have seen this behaviour, though never determined the root cause
>> .Probably the simplest thing you can do without access to the server
>> is to put your git svn fetch into a bash while loop, like so:
>>
>> while ! git svn fetch; do :; done;
>
> Of course, I did this, but still I wonder how much is the resulting git
> repository http://luther.ceplovi.cz/git/CalendarServer.git/ faithful
> representation of the original SVN one http://trac.calendarserver.org/.
> Would not be something missing?
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-29 23:14 git-svn troubles with calendarserver SVN repo Matěj Cepl
2013-11-30  8:54 ` Jon Seymour
2013-12-02  6:03   ` Matěj Cepl
2013-12-02  7:00     ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2013-12-02 11:01 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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