Sorry if I have posted this in the not-right place :) It's not like someone is going to die if I didn't checked out a git repo from SVN client; I was only testing it as other people have done it successfully.
Anyway, the only reason I posted in this mailing list is because the error message told me so... and to be nice, I did :) Take care On 8 February 2012 00:20, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > On 02/07/2012 02:49 PM, TheBlueSky .Net wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was checking out a Git repository > > (https://github.com/NuGet/PoliteCaptcha.git) when I encountered the > > following error near the end of getting all the files: > > > > Subversion encountered a serious problem. > > Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list > > with as much information as possible about what > > you were trying to do. > > But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message > > to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly. > > You can find the mailing list archives at > > http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > > > Subversion reported the following > > (you can copy the content of this dialog > > to the clipboard using Ctrl-C): > > > > In file > > > > 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.7.1\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c' > > line 1588: assertion failed (SVN_IS_VALID_REVNUM(changed_rev)) > > > > And if someone is wondering, checking out from github using SVN client is > > supported. > > Well, supported by whom? :-) > > This community has only signed up to support Subversion's command-line > client checking out from a Subversion mod_dav_svn or svnserve server. I > must assume that github has put together their own Subversion-esque server > software which communicates with git repositories. Obviously, we expect > our > client to behave properly against any server that wields our protocols > correctly, but first we need to establish that GitHub's server is such a > server. > > At first blush, it would appear that the GitHub server didn't transmit a > valid svn:entry:committed-rev property value for one of the directories > your > checkout is attempting to register with Subversion's working copy > administration library. If this problem is repeatable, it would be great > to > get a network trace of the failing checkout. > > -- > C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand > >
