From: Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:49:18 GMT
Subject: Re: svn svn returning 'fatal: Not a valid object name' on sourceforge svn repo
Message-ID: <p06240802c7419ec49cd5@[192.168.1.106]>
In-Reply-To: <20091205224950.GC2120@dcvr.yhbt.net>

At 2:49 PM -0800 12/5/09, Eric Wong wrote:
>Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org> wrote:
>> I use git svn often and normally it works fine.
>>
>> I getting a fatal error trying to clone the asciimathm svn repo at sourceforge:
>>
>> $ git svn clone --trunk=trunk --branches=branches http://asciimathml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/asciimathml asciimathml-svn-git
>> fatal: Not a valid object name
> > ls-tree -z  ./: command returned error: 128
>
>Passing the "-r4:HEAD" parameter to "git svn clone" should work.  It
>looks like the repository was initially miscreated and "trunk" was a
>symlink (and not a directory) in r1.

Thanks Eric, your suggestion worked.

How could you tell the first svn commit was a symlink?