From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:23:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Message-ID: <20080612192354.GO29404@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806121315540.18454@xenau.zenez.com>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:20:40PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I was not sure which I should use,  I had tried both with similar 
> results.  Here is what I used with git-svn
> 
> > git-svn clone /working/svn/networking/wireshark .
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 
> '/working/svn/networking/wireshark' at /usr/bin/git-svn line 934

I would try "git-svn clone file:///working/svn/networking/wireshark".

See also the svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot setting in the git-svn
manpage.