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Re: git svn clone failure

From
Lachlan Deck <lachlan.deck@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 28, 2009, 14:16 UTC
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On 28/03/2009, at 11:59 PM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
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> Lachlan Deck, 27.03.2009:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm trying to clone an existing svn repository with git (just getting
>> started with git) and it keeps failing with:
>> ...
>> r604 = 6428e63734a21ee5fcb4593274747e2758578a91 (git-svn)
>> fatal: unable to run 'git-svn'
>
> Are you sure r604 isn't the latest svn revision?
A few thousand out, yes.
> I always get this error when doing "git svn fetch" with an http URL,  
> it
> doesn't occur with an svn URL. But everything seems to work fine,
> though.

Interesting. Yes, it's from an https url. I'll try svn+ssh://.. But are you saying there's no way to get more info about the error?

Thanks

with regards, --

Lachlan Deck
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