From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Unable to convert a subversion repo to git Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:59:40 +0100 Message-ID: <50F99B9C.10805@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <50F97CC3.2000906@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Timothy Kretschmer , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 18 20:00:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TwHAX-00085T-FG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:00:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751898Ab3ARS7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:40 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:33835 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574Ab3ARS7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:40 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9903B20853; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=DvXcIvGcrzwGgVgIBjrodm Kq2Tk=; b=mLqLGlI+/Yr5m9MNopUnxQhZzChsxszTAsM1MkMsDkE7e/d3f47mY7 cgn/AEGx5MLpDBRH0q2C4KgAFGe080aZgay2QmmquNYIRHRqT8Vq4F+jaVDUbI4f XTbugyDxqlhXk5aTnShI9M3Y+pFHw/SUXBpMZkJJjBLrTHKPvZUes= X-Sasl-enc: nEM4UJJbvEKOMszZ6YySvIOgvwG4q4tIIatZn6J5RXgQ 1358535579 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [130.75.46.56]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 15DDD8E080D; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:59:38 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Timothy Kretschmer venit, vidit, dixit 18.01.2013 17:59: > The exact names of the branches are "CMT_PHASE3" and > "BlueSimViewer5.0_20110316_Branch" Just to be sure, not to doubt you: the svn branch name is "BlueSimViewer5.0_20110316_Branch" and thus differs from the name reported by git-svn? Are there maybe unprintable characters/control codes or something in the svn branch name? Somehow, git-svn is using an improper refname. > File system on the converting machine is ext4. SVN server is hosted on > a Fedora 8 box , running subversion 1.4.x. > To move forward, I commented out the problematic branches under > .git/packed-refs. Conversion continued but skipped the troubled > branches. > Still on the road of finding a way to include those branches in the conversion. > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Michael J Gruber > wrote: >> 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: /trunk => >>> /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 -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 >>