Subversion 1.7 and 1.8

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 3, 2013, at 16:20, Adam Mercer <ram at macports.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Jim Jagielski <jimjag at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:30 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm assuming this unreliability with subversion-1.8 and git-svn is the
>>> reason for this:
>>> 
>>> $ git svn clone -s -r90000:HEAD
>>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports
>>> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ram/macports/dports/.git/
>>> Using higher level of URL:
>>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports =>
>>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports
>>> perl5.12(6874) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fed70e2ae00: pointer
>>> being freed was not allocated
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> error: git-svn died of signal 6
>> 
>> Yeppers.
> 
> Well I guess my development is going to be on hold for a while then…

It needn't be. If Subversion 1.7 doesn't have the problem, you can downgrade back to that.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort