# git-svn failed on apr

2 messages from 2007-07-03 to 2007-07-08. Participants: Dongsheng Song, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8831

## Dongsheng Song, 2007-07-03 09:05

Subject: git-svn failed on apr
Message-ID: <4b3406f0707030205g3521cff5p1d5150b6a81af51b@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4b3406f0707030205g3521cff5p1d5150b6a81af51b%40mail.gmail.com

```
[ ~/wc/git-svn]$ mkdir apr
[ ~/wc/git-svn]$ cd apr/
[ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ ls
[ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ git-svn init -T trunk -b branches -t tags
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Using higher level of URL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr =>
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
[ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ git-svn fetch
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA
layer request failed: REPORT request failed on
'/repos/asf/!svn/bc/2200': REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/bc/2200': 200 OK
(http://svn.apache.org)

What's wrong?

---
Dongsheng

```

## Eric Wong, 2007-07-08 03:35

Subject: Re: git-svn failed on apr
Message-ID: <20070708033522.GA12818@mayonaise>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070708033522.GA12818%40mayonaise
In-Reply-To: <4b3406f0707030205g3521cff5p1d5150b6a81af51b@mail.gmail.com>

```
Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song@gmail.com> wrote:
> [ ~/wc/git-svn]$ mkdir apr
> [ ~/wc/git-svn]$ cd apr/
> [ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ ls
> [ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ git-svn init -T trunk -b branches -t tags
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr
> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
> Using higher level of URL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr =>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
> [ ~/wc/git-svn/apr]$ git-svn fetch
> W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175002): RA
> layer request failed: REPORT request failed on
> '/repos/asf/!svn/bc/2200': REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/bc/2200': 200 OK
> (http://svn.apache.org)
> 
> What's wrong?

Nothing.

The "W:" there means it's just a warning.  git-svn looks into the
beginning of history in an attempt to fetch all history, and if
the directory you're tracking doesn't exist, it'll spit out that
warning message once (it used to spit it out a lot more).

-- 
Eric Wong

```