From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Problem with git svn clone --authors-file Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:58:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4EA90109.4070504@alum.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: edman747 X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 27 08:58:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJJv3-00035v-LZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:58:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752434Ab1J0G6U (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:58:20 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:59553 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889Ab1J0G6T (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:58:19 -0400 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.100.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.135]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id p9R6wH2G031505 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:58:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/27/2011 01:51 AM, edman747 wrote: > Hello, > Attempting to clone a remote svn repo where I don't know all the > previous SVN author names. > installed msysgit (vista) > gitbash, > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > > create authors file with a few known authors. > > $ git svn clone --authors-file=authors http://svn.repo/trunk > ... > runs fine until > Author: (no author) not defined in authors file > > edit authors file add line: (no author) = none > > ------ > rerun previous git svn command > > $ git svn clone --authors-file=authors http://svn.repo/trunk > Using existing [svn-remote "svn"] > svn-remote.svn.fetch already set to track :refs/remotes/git-svn I'm not quite sure what your complaint is. "git svn clone" is equivalent to a "git svn init" followed by "git svn fetch". I would have thought that by the time "git svn clone" notices a problem with the authors file, it would already be in the "git svn fetch" phase. So it seems to me that after the first "clone" fails, one should probably run "git svn fetch" instead of "git svn clone" again. If this is the case (and the cause of your problem), then the documentation and error message should be made clearer. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/