From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Tebulin Subject: Git on SVN: space characters in branch names Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:31:27 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 06 18:35:16 2012 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 1S4yI7-0006jx-8T for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756735Ab2CFRfI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:35:08 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43936 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755947Ab2CFRfG (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:35:06 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S4yHw-0006WQ-3U for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:04 +0100 Received: from 217.6.238.194 ([217.6.238.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:04 +0100 Received: from nntp.20.jexpert by 217.6.238.194 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:35:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.6.238.194 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi! I'm trying to move to Git on top of Subversion in my company environment using Cygwin/Git 1.7.9. Therefore I'm trying to clone a set of SVN repositories. The SVN repository I'm trying to clone contains a commit, where a branch was accidentally named "1.1.x _M1": git svn clone -s https://svnserver/repository project.git \ --ignore-path=".*(?:1.1.x _M1|1.1.x%20_M1)" This skips the initial commit, but still stumbles on the rename commit: Found possible branch point: \ https://svnserver/repository/branches/1.1.x _M1 => \ https://svnserver/repository/branches/1.1.x_M1, 2374 fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/1.1.x _M1 cat-file commit refs/remotes/1.1.x _M1: command returned error: 128 Do I have to ignore the branch completely? Thanks - Ben