Subject: Re: git svn clone fails

From: Jörg Schaible <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:51:39 +0200

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