[pydotorg-www] Using the python.org www repository with git

[Chris Withers]

Hi Chris,

Never tried, but if you get a successful clone I'd be interested in a copy!

cheers,

(another) Chris

On 04/05/2012 11:38, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Has anyone used git-svn with the pydotorg repository? I'm having a bit
> of trouble cloning the repository (aka checking it out); am hoping I
> don't have to hunt down a Windows svn client.
>
> $ git svn clone -s svn+ssh://pydotorg@svn.python.org/trunk/beta.python.org pywww
> Initialized empty Git repository in c:/pywww/.git/
> Using higher level of URL:
> svn+ssh://pydotorg@svn.python.org/trunk/beta.python.org =>
> svn+ssh://pydotorg@svn.python.org
> W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013):
> Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path
> '/trunk/beta.python.org'
> W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching
> aggressively for old history.
> This may take a while on large repositories
> Checked through r8600
>
> At this point it stalled for a long time (not sure how long, but long
> enough that I was wondering if it had died completely - probably ten
> minutes or more). Then after a while it silently gave me back a
> prompt. However, the new pywww directory has about 25KB in it, which
> is not nearly enough for even current status, much less history.
>
> $ git status
> # On branch master
> #
> # Initial commit
> #
> nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
>
> $ git log
> fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'
>
> Have I done something hopelessly wrong? If nobody knows what's going
> on, I'll switch to a "real" Subversion client, but it would be more
> convenient to work this way.
>
> I'm currently re-cloning the repository without the -s (standard
> setup) option, to see if that makes any difference.
>
> Chris Angelico
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