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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: Re: svn svn returning 'fatal: Not a valid object name' on
	sourceforge svn repo
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:49:50 -0800
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Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org> wrote:
> I use git svn often and normally it works fine.
>
> I getting a fatal error trying to clone the asciimathm svn repo at sourceforge:
>
> $ git svn clone --trunk=trunk --branches=branches http://asciimathml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/asciimathml asciimathml-svn-git
> fatal: Not a valid object name
> ls-tree -z  ./: command returned error: 128
>
> Anybody seen this kind of problem before.
>
> A svn co works fine.
>
> I'm using git version 1.6.5.1 on mac os 10.5.8.

Hi Stephen,

Passing the "-r4:HEAD" parameter to "git svn clone" should work.  It
looks like the repository was initially miscreated and "trunk" was a
symlink (and not a directory) in r1.

I have not yet thought of a good solution to this, yet...

-- 
Eric Wong