I'm seeing the same today checking out Debian Installer (git-svn clone). Strange thing is that there were only infrequent errors (once every 50-200 revisions) during the first 10000 or so revisions, but ATM (around r11000 where a whole bunch of larger commits (tags) is being checked out) there is one failure with every revision! It does not seem to affect the checkout as a whole: if I just restart it will continue and because of that I've just created a loop around the command... [...] Now its just going again.
I did the same a few days ago on an i386 box and did not see this issue then. The checkout did fail at some point (about halfway I think, which is ~ r20000), but I'm not sure if that was this error or something else (I just gave up at that point and decided to check out a specific revision; seen no problems with that partial checkout since then). This checkout was probably with git-svn backported to Etch, but I'm not completely sure about that. The current checkout is running on my amd64, but not sure if the arch is a factor. I rather wonder if this is a particular type of data or transaction that is causing the failure... I'm willing to do tests if that would help. Cheers, FJP -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages git-svn depends on: ii git-core 1:1.5.2.2-3+b1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii libsvn-perl 1.4.4dfsg1-1 Perl bindings for Subversion ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.30-3 A perl module for simple terminal ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
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