Re: git svn error "Not a valid object name"

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mar 16, 2013, 01:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20130316014548.GA16253@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAJKLP9ZQBXf5ZZY9FccOAL5QU+q1b5SnAfvP9BpARdqvzPuWeg@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Retter <adam@exist-db.org> wrote:

> Our public SourceForge Subversion repository is here:
> http://svn.code.sf.net/p/exist/code/trunk/eXist

It's asking me for a username/password...

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> We cloned that to the local server using rsync and are attempting to
> migrate to git using the following commands:
> 
> $ git svn init -t tags -b stable -T trunk
> file:///home/ec2-user/svn-rsync/code new-git-repo
> $ cd new-git-repo
> $ git config svn-remote.svn.preserve-empty-dirs true
> $ git config svn-remote.svn.rewriteRoot https://svn.code.sf.net/p/exist/code
> $ git svn fetch -A /home/ec2-user/.svn2git/authors.txt
> 
> It all started well and was running away for quite some hours, when
> the following error occurred:
> 
> fatal: Not a valid object name
> ls-tree -z  ./webapp/api/: command returned error: 128
> 
> I have no idea what this means, or how to fix this.
> We are using Git version 1.8.1.GIT on Amazon EC2 Linux.
> 
> Any suggestions please?

You might've hit a bug in branch detection, but I'd have to look at the repo to be certain and fix it if neded. --no-follow-parent should work, but you'd lose branch/tag history.