svn - git sync stopped working ?

[Geert Janssens]

On 03-08-12 17:36, John Ralls wrote:
> He's looking ;-)
>
> I ran the update manually a few minutes ago, so your change from 
> yesterday is in Github.
>
> The automatic updates have been having trouble since July 16th, with 
> the following errors:
> Jul 29 00:31:04 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: Processing Directory 
> gnucash-trunk
> Jul 29 00:31:05 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: Running git svn fetch
> Jul 29 00:31:14 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: Index mismatch: 
> 7de472389078c145c59c9bc8615abd0651064b3e != 
> c8c076d25038188cd45688b6cf7c6b72a8739c35
> Jul 29 00:31:14 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: rereading 
> b78ad314c18ea1b20e065a9896fee881009c106d
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: usage: git-hash-object [ 
> [-t <type>] [-w] [--stdin] <file>... | --stdin-paths < <list-of-paths> ]
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: hash-object -w 
> --stdin-paths --no-filters: command returned error: 129
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]:
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: error closing pipe: Bad 
> file descriptor at /usr/bin/git-svn line 0
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: error closing pipe: Bad 
> file descriptor at /usr/bin/git-svn line 0
> Jul 29 00:31:15 jeeves Gnucash_knocker[5621]: svn fetch: command 
> returned error: 1
>
> Why it works manually and fails when launched by "knocker" is so far a 
> mystery.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
No idea either... The error seems to happen because git thinks you are 
calling the command with improper arguments (that's what error code 129 
means). Perhaps a subtle quoting issue in one of the scripts that only 
shows when running the update automatically ?

Geert