svn - git sync stopped working ?

[Geert Janssens]

On 05-08-12 16:49, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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
>
At least I'm giving you plenty of opportunity to test ;) I've got 
another set of patches waiting for the sync to happen before I can svn 
dcommit them.

I hope you can sort this out soon. If there's anything I can do to help, 
just let me know.

Geert