Re: git-svn clone --stdlayout causes "fatal: refs/remotes/trunk: not a valid SHA1"

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2010, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20101101181459.GA9387@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20101101171141.GA8853@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Is your repository public?  If not, could you give a sketch of the project
> history, for example by running
>
>  $ git log --oneline --name-status
>
> from a successful (non-stdlayout) clone?

Since your trunk directory is called "trunc" rather than "trunk", it seems stdlayout is not appropriate for the import.

There is also a tag named "trunc".  Not sure how that will work out. :(

Anyway, hopefully that information can help interested people to reproduce this problem, document it, and make it fail with a better error message.

For your import, perhaps

	--trunk=<trunk dir> \
	--tags=<tags dir>

would give better results?

If this is a one-time conversion (i.e., it will not need to be updated with later changes from svn), then you might also find some of the methods described in

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158940/focus=159054

helpful (especially use of "git filter-branch" to extract subdirectories from a simple whole-tree import).

Hope that helps, Jonathan