# Git svn unable to connect to a local repository with path URL

1 messages from 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-09. Participants: Ramyres Aquino.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/66498

## Ramyres Aquino, 2026-10-09 19:42

Subject: Git svn unable to connect to a local repository with path URL
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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

I created a local SVN repository and checked out a working branch.
After a few versionings in SVN, I decided to migrate to Git. Using git
svn clone to clone the SVN repository to a local folder, I ran into
the bug.

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

Create a folder with repo cloned

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

Show me the message:
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D:\_ARQUITETURA\MigracaoSvn2Git_20261001>git svn clone
file:///D:/_ARQUITETURA/MigracaoSvn2Git_20261001/SvnServerSample/Projeto/Trunk/2026.4.0.0.SaaS
testeGit
Initialized empty Git repository in
D:/_ARQUITETURA/MigracaoSvn2Git_20261001/testeGit/.git/
Can't create session: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
'file:///D:/_ARQUITETURA/MigracaoSvn2Git_20261001/SvnServerSample/Projeto/Trunk/2026.4.0.0.SaaS':
Unable to open repository
'file:///D:/_ARQUITETURA/MigracaoSvn2Git_20261001/SvnServerSample/Projeto/Trunk/2026.4.0.0.SaaS'
at D:/Ferramentas/Git/mingw64/share/perl5/Git/SVN.pm line 148.
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What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

+ Expected a git repo folder with the files of SVN
- Error message and a empty git repo

Anything else you want to add:
* All setup is local
* Windows path url


[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.51.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 4d21a77b98af5cf479d8b6f863c2aa94257cd4e1
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.15.0
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.2.4 11 Feb 2025
zlib: 1.3.1
SHA-1: SHA1_DC
SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
default-ref-format: files
default-hash: sha1
uname: Windows 10.0 19045
compiler info: gnuc: 15.2
libc info: no libc information available
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>


[Enabled Hooks]

Atenciosamente,

Ramyres P Aquino
💼 Empresário, 👨‍💻Desenvolvedor e 👨‍🏫Professor
☎️ (62) 9 9936-3640
📍 Goiânia, GO, Brasil


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