On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>: > > I just tried a leading-segment load up to r14877, but it didn't reproduce > > the problems I see with r14877 in a full repository conversion - it seems > > the combination with something later in the history may be necessary to > > reproduce the issue. > > Great :-( > > Well, there's a bisection-like strategy for finding the minimum > leading segment that produces misbehavior. My conversion crew will > apply it as hard as we need to to get the job done.
I've now provided a reduced synthetic test (7 commits) for the issue observed at r14877, in issue 172. It wouldn't surprise me if a fix for this synthetic test fixes both issues 171 and 172 (and it wouldn't surprise me if it's fixed in the new SVN dump reader). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
