From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-svn - canonicalize: Assertion `*src != '/'' failed.
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:28:53 -0700
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Hi,

Bruce Korb wrote:

> I was trying to clone a SVN repo, but not having luck:
>
>> $ git svn clone $PWD/private-lustre-svn $PWD/private-lustre-git
>> perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:321: canonicalize: Assertion `*src != '/'' failed.
>> error: git-svn died of signal 6
>
> What is Perl or Subversion or GIT trying to tell me, please?  Thank you!

What version of git are you using?  And what version of libsvn (and the
libsvn perl bindings)?

Thanks,
Jonathan