Re: git-svn clone --stdlayout causes "fatal: refs/remotes/trunk: not a valid SHA1"

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Klaus,

Klaus wrote:

> this works ok.
>        git svn clone svn://localhost/MyPrj MyPrj  --username=MyUserName
>     
> this causes the error (I added "--stdlayout")
>        git svn clone svn://localhost/MyPrj MyPrj  --stdlayout --username=MyUserName
>     
> last line of error output
> …
>         M       Wiki/MyPrj_wiki/MyPrjHistory.wiki
> W: -empty_dir: MyPrjAll/trunc/MyPrjGui/DotNet11MainMenu.cs
> r141 = ad4166b68d89c4b795fb74a4fc09168160b2f60e 
> (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207@142)
> W: +empty_dir: MyPrjAll/trunc/MyPrj.Gui
> r142 = 0decd283bb36f9296172970eeab377b6f93777ba 
> (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207@142)
> Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207) 0decd283bb36f9296172970eeab377b6f93777ba
> Following parent with do_switch
> Successfully followed parent
> r143 = a4861b50a5f1c067210b30951dc06012a7d2da25 
> (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207)
> fatal: refs/remotes/trunk: not a valid SHA1
> update-ref refs/heads/master refs/remotes/trunk: command returned error: 128

Is your repository public?  If not, could you give a sketch of the project
history, for example by running

 $ git log --oneline --name-status

from a successful (non-stdlayout) clone?

> note: although i am using ms-windows7 i mailed this report to the debian 
> mailing-list because i think that  

Redirecting discussion to the git mailing list; maybe someone there will
have other ideas for debugging.

Thanks for reporting,
Jonathan