{"thread":{"id":"29861","subject":"Git on SVN: space characters in branch names","startedAt":"2012-03-06T17:31:27Z","lastAt":"2012-03-06T17:31:27Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Ben Tebulin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"186228","messageId":"jj5hl0$7dm$1@dough.gmane.org","threadId":"29861","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git on SVN: space characters in branch names","fromName":"Ben Tebulin","fromEmail":"nntp.20.jexpert@spamgourmet.com","sentAt":"2012-03-06T17:31:27Z","receivedAt":"2012-03-06T17:31:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nntp.20.jexpert@spamgourmet.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi! I'm trying to move to Git on top of Subversion in my company\nenvironment using Cygwin/Git 1.7.9. Therefore I'm trying to clone\na set of SVN repositories.\n\nThe SVN repository I'm trying to clone contains a commit, where a\nbranch was accidentally named \"1.1.x _M1\":\n\n   git svn clone -s https://svnserver/repository project.git \\\n       --ignore-path=\".*(?:1.1.x _M1|1.1.x%20_M1)\"\n\n\nThis skips the initial commit, but still stumbles on the rename commit:\n\n   Found possible branch point: \\\n\thttps://svnserver/repository/branches/1.1.x _M1 => \\\n\thttps://svnserver/repository/branches/1.1.x_M1, 2374\n   fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/1.1.x _M1\n   cat-file commit refs/remotes/1.1.x _M1: command returned error: 128\n\n\nDo I have to ignore the branch completely?\n\nThanks\n- Ben\n"}]}