Re: Import of svn rep has path issues

From: Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@spoerlein.net>
Date: May 2, 2010, 08:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20100502081510.GF92627@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <8439yblorn.fsf@gmail.com>

On Sat, 01.05.2010 at 14:45:00 +0100, Paulo J. Matos wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I just tried to import a svn project into git using git-svnimport.
> I followed:
> http://weblog.redlinesoftware.com/2008/2/24/converting-subversion-repositories-to-git
> 
> The line was:
> git-svnimport -C projname -r -v -A authors https://your-repo-host.com/projname
> 
> Interestingly some revisions resulted in a lot of errors with:
> 91: Unrecognized path: /main.cc
> 
> This seems to occur in the first revisions where I hadn't adopted a tree
> format of /branches, /tags, /trunk. 
> On the other hand, git-svnimport returned 0 to the environment, so I
> would assume that those 'Unrecognized path' issues are just warnings and
> everything went fine. I would like to have some confirmation of this if
> possible and if these files were not imported into my new git rep, how
> can I solve these issues?

Well, just look at your git-repo then and see if the logs indicate this file made it (I doubt it).

Please have a look at svn2git, which can take rules for what to do with specific paths at specific revisions. This should make it possible to go from

/ is master in git

to

/trunk is master in git

with little effort

Regards, Uli