title: git svn rebase: Incomplete data: Delta source ended unexpectedly
body: <p>I have been maintaining <a href="http://github.com/Pistos/watir-mirror" rel="noreferrer">the git mirror</a> of <a href="http://wtr.rubyforge.org/" rel="noreferrer">the watir project</a>.  Some time a couple weeks ago, we had someone ready to submit their first git-based patch.  Unfortunately, we ran into some issues regarding line endings (CRLF vs. LF, etc.) because of the multi-platform nature of the project.</p>
  
  <p>I tried what I could to set <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes" rel="noreferrer">the autocrlf option</a> (to 'input'), and do some --hard resets.  However, a few days later, the daily update (git svn rebase) is spewing this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Incomplete data: Delta source ended unexpectedly
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried googling around for what to do, but even removing the autocrlf setting in the .git/config hasn't helped.  I fear the working copy is corrupt, but I hope it is not unrecoverable.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously, a possible course of action is to just re-import from svn and start a fresh mirror, but I hope we don't have to do that, since the current watir-mirror has already been forked, and people have developed new code in their forks.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for any help.</p>