From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:26:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn problems with white-space in tag names
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Hans-Juergen Euler <waas.nett@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems to be a problem of the windows version. At least with its
> complete severity. Installed git on Ubuntu in a virtual machine was
> able to clone the subversion repos past the tag with the white-space
> at the end. I am not sure but apparently this tag has not been
> converted.
>
> The git repos I could copy from Ubuntu to windows. So far no problems
> seen in this copy on windows.
>

The cause of the problem is that the tagname isn't a valid filename on
Windows, which git requires it to be.