svn - git sync stopped working ?

[John Ralls]

On Aug 3, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Geert,
> 
> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
> 
>> The last commit in svn is r22278, committed by me two days ago. On
>> github however, the most recent commit is 22277, committed by me just
>> before.
>> 
>> Because of this I can't push my most recent patches via git svn dcommit.
>> 
>> Can anybody with the proper access to the sync infrastructure check
>> what's going on ?
> 
> I believe John Ralls runs that...  Hopefully he'll take a look.
> 

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