From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:12:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn fails
Message-ID: <485585B3.60406@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <A869B7C3-4AC3-4592-A0F1-0349B64E07ED@itee.uq.edu.au>

Guido Governatori wrote:
> I'm trying to convert an svn repository. But when I run
> 
> git svn clone --prefix=file://PATH --sdtlayout URL
> 
> the program exist with an error message like
> 
> r341 = eaa122678de1d79883f578f3f57b73e31f5d7a6d (file%3A//PATH/tags/ 
> NAME)
> fatal: refs/remotes/file%3A//PATH/tags/NAME: not a valid SHA1
> update-ref refs/heads/master refs/remotes/file%3A//PATH/tags/NAME:  
> command returned error: 128
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Looks like something very strange in your .git/config under the svn
remote section, like a file:// URI placed where something expected a
regular path name.

Sam.