git-svn error when cloning apache repo

[Jing Xue]

I'm trying to clone the Apache Ivy repo and got this error. What does
the "Using higher level of URL" mean? Also, of course, what does the
error message mean?

$ git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core/ ivy-core -T trunk -b branches -t tags
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/repos/asf/!svn/bc/100': REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/bc/100': Could not read chunk size: Secure connection truncated (https://svn.apache.org)
branch_from: /incubator/ivy/tags => /incubator/ivy/tags/1.4.1
Found possible branch point: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/tags/1.4.1 => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core/tags/1.4.1, 499505
Initializing parent: tags/***@499505
Found possible branch point: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/trunk => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/tags/1.4.1, 488008
Initializing parent: tags/***@488008
RA layer request failed: REPORT request failed on '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default': REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (https://svn.apache.org) at /home/jingxue/bin/git-svn line 3155

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Thanks.

[Sam Vilain]

Post by Jing Xue
$ git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core/ ivy-core -T trunk -b branches -t tags
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf

I'm fairly sure this is where it went wrong. Try editing .git/config and
putting your original URL in the source URL, and re-try the fetch.

Sam.

[Jing Xue]

Post by Sam Vilain

Post by Jing Xue
$ git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core/ ivy-core -T trunk -b branches -t tags
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ivy/core => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf

I'm fairly sure this is where it went wrong. Try editing .git/config and
putting your original URL in the source URL, and re-try the fetch.

Hmm... thanks, but didn't work. The repo didn't look right to begin
with. The HEAD pointed to refs/heads/master as usual, but there was
nothing in refs/heads at all.

I also tried:
git svn clone https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ ivy-core -s --prefix=incubator/ivy/core/

And got no errors, but there wasn't any working tree in ivy-core
afterwards. Then I tried 'git svn rebase':

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream

Due to the same "nothing in refs/heads" situation. Also there is this
23M file .git/svn/incubator/ivy/core/trunk/.rev_db.13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef6
that contains all 0's.

The part before "I also tried..." was with git 1.5.3. "I also tried..."
was with git 1.5.3.1.112.gb7a2 as of last night.

Cheers.