From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Timothy Kretschmer <timothykretschmer@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to convert a subversion repo to git
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:48:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F97CC3.2000906@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO2=c4nr8PsbHmyKptWewQMmpqWP=YasKZSnCuB9CCkExpSF8A@mail.gmail.com>
Timothy Kretschmer venit, vidit, dixit 16.01.2013 15:06:
> I am seeing the following output while converting a subversion repo to git.
>
> >Found possible branch point: <repo-url>/trunk =>
> <repo-url>/branches/CMT_PHASE3, 18441
>> fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/BlueSimViewer 5.0 20110316 Branch
>> cat-file commit refs/remotes/BlueSimViewer 5.0 20110316 Branch: command returned error: 128
>
> The command I am running to convert the repo is
>
>> git svn clone <repo-url> -A authors-transform.txt --stdlayout bluebox-git > svnlist
>
> I am running git version 1.8.1.1 on an Ubuntu 12.10 server. I am happy
> to provide any other information that would be helpful.
>
> I appreciate any assistance you can provide in this matter,
> -Tim
git-svn should cope with funky branch names. What is the exact name of
the "CMT..." and "BlueSimViewer..." branches? Are you using a case
challenged file system or just some standard linux fs?
Michael
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2013-01-16 14:06 Unable to convert a subversion repo to git Timothy Kretschmer
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2013-01-18 18:59 ` Michael J Gruber
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