Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> > > I just tried a leading-segment load up to r14877, but it didn't reproduce
> > > the problems I see with r14877 in a full repository conversion - it seems
> > > the combination with something later in the history may be necessary to
> > > reproduce the issue.
> >
> > Great :-(
> >
> > Well, there's a bisection-like strategy for finding the minimum
> > leading segment that produces misbehavior. My conversion crew will
> > apply it as hard as we need to to get the job done.
>
> I've now provided a reduced synthetic test (7 commits) for the issue
> observed at r14877, in issue 172. It wouldn't surprise me if a fix for
> this synthetic test fixes both issues 171 and 172 (and it wouldn't
> surprise me if it's fixed in the new SVN dump reader).
If not, I think it soon will be. I expect that little synthetic test
to help a lot.
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