Subject: Re: git svn clone fails

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:32:04 +0200

On 2015-08-14 09.51, Jörg Schaible wrote:
I can't reproduce it here:

 git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/xx/lang/.git/
RA layer request failed: OPTIONS of
'http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang': Could not resolve hostname
`websvn': Host not found (http://websvn) at
/Users/xx/lib/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 143

In other words, is there a way to make this reproducible for others?
If not, how could the problem be tracked down and fixed
(from other people than you or somebody in your organization ?)

> Is there really no other place for a bug report? This will simply vanish in 
> the list's noise ...
> 
> Jörg Schaible wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm. Is this the proper channel to report issues or should I go somewhere
>> else?
>>
>> Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> we have to turn some projects managed by Subversion into a GIT-based
>>> solution. However the conversion unfortunately fails with an error:
>>>
>>> ============== %< ==============
>>> [...]
>>> 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
>>> ============== %< ==============
>>>
>>> Apart from the line number, the same error occurs also with GIT version
>>> 2.4.6 and 2.3.6 (latest stable version in Gentoo).
>>>
>>> The command to create the GIT repository was:
>>> ============== %< ==============
>>> $ git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang -s
>>> --no- metadata --preserve-empty-dirs -A ~/tmp/authors.txt commons-lang
>>> ============== %< ==============
>>>
>>> Note, that the command succeeds even for 2.4.6 if we drop the --preserve-
>>> empty-dirs option - at the cost of some empty directories which are used
>>> to trigger profiles for Maven; i.e. without those we cannot reproduce
>>> released versions.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jörg
>