* Possible error on the git-svn man page
@ 2013-06-28 7:54 Szuba, Marek (IKP)
2013-07-07 2:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
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From: Szuba, Marek (IKP) @ 2013-06-28 7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Hello,
On the git-svn(1) man page, the third example in the "Basic Examples"
section discusses how one can speed up the initial clone of a
Subversion repository by cloning it from Git first and linking it to
Subversion afterwards. However, it seems this example is not correct. I
have had several people try it on several different repositories, with
different git versions (specifically, 1.7 and 1.8) - and every time the
process fails at the same moment with the same error message:
$ git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'master' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'FETCH_HEAD' which can not be resolved as commit?
Therefore, I believe the man page ought to be updated so that the example works again.
If you have any questions, please let me know (by direct e-mail - I am not subscribed to the mailing list).
All the best,
--
MS
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* Re: Possible error on the git-svn man page
2013-06-28 7:54 Possible error on the git-svn man page Szuba, Marek (IKP)
@ 2013-07-07 2:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
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From: Jonathan Nieder @ 2013-07-07 2:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Szuba, Marek (IKP); +Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Wong, Jan Krüger
Hi,
Szuba, Marek (IKP) wrote:
> On the git-svn(1) man page, the third example in the "Basic Examples"
[...]
> $ git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
> fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'master' at the same time.
> Did you intend to checkout 'FETCH_HEAD' which can not be resolved as commit?
What branch are you on when you run "git fetch"? What does "git log
FETCH_HEAD" say? Is this repository public, which would let people on
this list try it out?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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