# git-svn problems with white-space in tag names 3 messages from 2013-01-23 to 2013-02-06. Participants: Hans-Juergen Euler, Erik Faye-Lund. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32699 ## Hans-Juergen Euler, 2013-01-23 10:23 Subject: git-svn problems with white-space in tag names Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAK3CF%2B4GPKBfAmgsHYnf_6nCCOCe-1d31cGsWp4jkKC28cZr0g%40mail.gmail.com ``` I have discussed already the problem a bit more in this thread groups.google.com/d/topic/git-users/kfMFZ3uEFsM/discussion -----Operating system (specifically which version) windows 7 64 bit ------Git version (git --version) Git version 1.8.0 for windows obviously. git bash and git gui installed and using ------Git configuration (system, home, repository) hmm guess is covered with git bash and git gui. Using the standard config stuff using subversion TortoiseSVN 1.7.11 Subversion 1.7.8 Was typically always up-to-date (within 2 months or so) with previous versions using an external subversion provider for storing the information externally. guess the version there is older but do not know I have tried to convert some of my external subversion data bases with git-svn clone I have encountered a problem with one of my subversion repos. I have obviously introduced about 2 years ago a problem with an additional white space at the end of tag name. So there is an entry "tags/blabla " in the subversion repos. The sequential handling of the svn repos with git-svn gets stuck there. I could not find a way around this. My guess is that the white-space was introduced by accident on windows by Tortoise-SVN. Unfortunately this occurs at revision 90 something and I have almost 1000 revisions stored. Let me know if you need more details.Thanks. ``` ## Hans-Juergen Euler, 2013-01-27 14:12 Subject: Re: git-svn problems with white-space in tag names Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAK3CF%2B46a2LsrZ0ef5Bc2XfwCVv1LVk6YbMasa6e5kx-Dp3JTg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 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. 2013/1/23 Hans-Juergen Euler : > I have discussed already the problem a bit more in this thread > groups.google.com/d/topic/git-users/kfMFZ3uEFsM/discussion > > -----Operating system (specifically which version) > windows 7 64 bit > > ------Git version (git --version) > Git version 1.8.0 for windows obviously. > git bash and git gui installed and using > > ------Git configuration (system, home, repository) > hmm guess is covered with git bash and git gui. Using the standard config stuff > > using subversion > TortoiseSVN 1.7.11 > Subversion 1.7.8 > Was typically always up-to-date (within 2 months or so) with previous versions > > using an external subversion provider for storing the information > externally. guess the version there is older but do not know > > > I have tried to convert some of my external subversion data bases with > git-svn clone > > I have encountered a problem with one of my subversion repos. I have > obviously introduced about 2 years ago a problem with an additional > white space at the end of tag name. > > So there is an entry "tags/blabla " > > in the subversion repos. The sequential handling of the svn repos with > git-svn gets stuck there. I could not find a way around this. My guess > is that the white-space was introduced by accident on windows by > Tortoise-SVN. > Unfortunately this occurs at revision 90 something and I have almost > 1000 revisions stored. > > Let me know if you need more details.Thanks. ``` ## Erik Faye-Lund, 2013-02-06 09:26 Subject: Re: git-svn problems with white-space in tag names Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CABPQNSbRU2%3Da0ONGDKH4O_HTyMuEGFcVfTSRuEY3BRSh_5whdA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Hans-Juergen Euler 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. ```