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From: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schaible <joerg.schaible@swisspost.com>
Subject: Re: git svn clone fails
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Is there really no other place for a bug report? This will simply vanis=
h in=20
the list's noise ...

J=C3=B6rg Schaible wrote:

> Hmmm. Is this the proper channel to report issues or should I go some=
where
> else?
>=20
> J=C3=B6rg Schaible wrote:
>=20
>> Hello guys,
>>=20
>> we have to turn some projects managed by Subversion into a GIT-based
>> solution. However the conversion unfortunately fails with an error:
>>=20
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D %< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> [...]
>> Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/origin/tags/v_2.1.1)
>> 450fa2c84a8fc087a2a66e5fb3d6d22096671f81
>> Following parent with do_switch
>>         M       changes.xml
>>         M       pom.xml
>> couldn't truncate file at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git.pm=
 line
>> 1325.
>> $ git --version
>> git version 2.5.0
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D %< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>>=20
>> Apart from the line number, the same error occurs also with GIT vers=
ion
>> 2.4.6 and 2.3.6 (latest stable version in Gentoo).
>>=20
>> The command to create the GIT repository was:
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D %< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> $ git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang -=
s
>> --no- metadata --preserve-empty-dirs -A ~/tmp/authors.txt commons-la=
ng
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D %< =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>>=20
>> Note, that the command succeeds even for 2.4.6 if we drop the --pres=
erve-
>> empty-dirs option - at the cost of some empty directories which are =
used
>> to trigger profiles for Maven; i.e. without those we cannot reproduc=
e
>> released versions.
>>=20
>> Cheers,
>> J=C3=B6rg