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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-svn clone --stdlayout causes "fatal: refs/remotes/trunk: not
 a valid SHA1"
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:14:59 -0500
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 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?

Since your trunk directory is called "trunc" rather than "trunk", it seems
stdlayout is not appropriate for the import.

There is also a tag named "trunc".  Not sure how that will work out. :(

Anyway, hopefully that information can help interested people to reproduce
this problem, document it, and make it fail with a better error message.

For your import, perhaps

	--trunk=<trunk dir> \
	--tags=<tags dir>

would give better results?

If this is a one-time conversion (i.e., it will not need to be updated with
later changes from svn), then you might also find some of the methods
described in

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158940/focus=159054

helpful (especially use of "git filter-branch" to extract subdirectories
from a simple whole-tree import).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan