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Asked: 2026-05-17T15:38:29+00:00

Following is the error I am getting when I tried ‘git svn rebase’: Byte

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Following is the error I am getting when I tried ‘git svn rebase’:

Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/Memoize/Storable.pm line 21

The version of perl I am running is:

$ perl --version

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 12 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

When I searched the web for “Byte order is not compatible” and I get numerous hits that shows the Perl doc that says:

What this means is that if you have
data written by Storable 1.x running
on perl 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 configured with
64 bit integers on Unix or Linux then
by default this Storable will refuse
to read it, giving the error Byte
order is not compatible. If you have
such data then you you should set
$Storable::interwork_56_64bit to a
true value to make this Storable read
and write files with the old header.
You should also migrate your data, or
any older perl you are communicating
with, to this current version of
Storable.

What I don’t know is, how to set this ‘$Storable::interwork_56_64bit‘ to true. Can you please let me know how to do it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I started getting this error message. I’m using a git repository that lives in a Max OS X partition. I sometimes access it from OS X (64 bit), and sometimes access it from a VM that’s running a 32 bit version of Linux. It looks like there’s a cache file that is stored in a machine-dependent format.

    After doing some digging, I believe you can work around the error by blowing away all of the .db files stored in .git/svn/.caches. This should be a slightly more surgical approach than blowing away the entire svn directory.

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