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From: Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: svn svn returning 'fatal: Not a valid object name' on sourceforge svn repo
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:49:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06240802c7419ec49cd5@[192.168.1.106]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091205224950.GC2120@dcvr.yhbt.net>

At 2:49 PM -0800 12/5/09, Eric Wong wrote:
>Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org> wrote:
>> I use git svn often and normally it works fine.
>>
>> I getting a fatal error trying to clone the asciimathm svn repo at sourceforge:
>>
>> $ git svn clone --trunk=trunk --branches=branches http://asciimathml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/asciimathml asciimathml-svn-git
>> fatal: Not a valid object name
> > ls-tree -z  ./: command returned error: 128
>
>Passing the "-r4:HEAD" parameter to "git svn clone" should work.  It
>looks like the repository was initially miscreated and "trunk" was a
>symlink (and not a directory) in r1.

Thanks Eric, your suggestion worked.

How could you tell the first svn commit was a symlink?

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-06 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03 21:00 svn svn returning 'fatal: Not a valid object name' on sourceforge svn repo Stephen Bannasch
2009-12-05 22:49 ` Eric Wong
2009-12-06 17:49   ` Stephen Bannasch [this message]

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