Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Joseph Myers wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> And given the synthetic test I've added to issue 178, I suspect the same
> problem is behind at least some of the missing file/directory deletions as
> well.
Likely, yes.
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