[bug, git-svn] error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder

2013-06-16 Thread Andrei Purdea
When trying to clone a big svn repository using git-svn, with many empty folders, after a while I started getting many error: too many matches for svn-remote.svn.added-placeholder errors. The following url has a suggestion for a temporary fix:

[PATCH/RFC] diff/read-cache: don't assume empty files will filter to empty

2017-07-16 Thread Andrei Purdea
Hey guys, please see the below patch. (please read commit message first and then the following:) In particular I'd like to hear comments about the changes I made to how smudging works. I am not confident on whether it is a good way to permanently fix the problem. I'm wondering if there's a better