Re: Problems with git-svn authors file

From: Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de>
Date: Dec 11, 2006, 11:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20061211114422.GA5332@fry.bender.fht>
In-Reply-To: <200612110904.54389.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:04:52AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Sunday 2006 December 10 17:26, Nicolas Vilz wrote:
> 
> > Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/git-svn line
> > 2952.
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > /usr/bin/git-svn line 2953.
> > Author:  not defined in .git/info/svn-authors file
> > 512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 457
> >         main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 328
> >         main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 187
> 
> I've had errors like this.  For certain repositories (possibly very old ones) 
> there is an unusual, empty, revision 0.  I got around the problem by telling 
> git-svn to start at revision 1.  Everything seemed fine after that.
>

Well it is a fresh repository. And you are right, there is an empty revision 0. I didn't recognize that is was the revision 0 I got stuck with. But it is obvious now :)

> $ git-svn fetch -r1
> 
> I don't know if that will be your fix, but it's worth a try.

That fixed it, thx.