[asterisk-dev] git-svn fetch failing

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 06:29:11PM -0500, Ben Langfeld wrote:
> I'm having some problems using git-svn to clone Asterisk into a local git
> repo. The output is this:
> 
> {18:24}~/code/asterisk:master ✓
> 1 ↵ ➭ git svn fetch
> 
> [2.0.0]
> Found possible branch point:
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4 =>
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/tags/autotag_for_aadk-0.1.0, 47394
> W: Refspec glob conflict (ref: refs/remotes/trunk):
> expected path: branches/trunk
>     real path: trunk
> Continuing ahead with trunk
> fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.
> cat-file commit refs/remotes/tags/autotag_for_.: command returned error: 128

'.' may not appear at the end of a tag name (if a tag is called 'a.' and
there's a tag called 'a', what happens with 'a..master'?).

> 
> Has anyone seen this before? Is it a known issue?

Yes, I have run into that. I think I had to manually remove that
reference and re-fetch ('git svn fetch' continues the clone).

Ah, but I documented a better fix:

  git svn clone -r1-47393,47395:HEAD -s http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk

This tag was created accidentally, and you can live without it in the
repository.

This is documented in
https://gitorious.org/asterisk-tools/asterisk-tools/source/master:git-asterisk-howto

You also have gen_authors to generate an AUTHORS file (for usage with
-A) in that git repository. Even better: you have an
automatically-updating git repository generated using git-svn near-by:
https://gitorious.org/asterisk-tools/asterisk

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