Error importing tno.euphorie repo

[wichert]

I am trying to convert http://code.simplon.biz/svn/projects/tno/euphorie/Develop to git, but running svn2git on that URL quickly results in an error:

$ svn2git --authors ~/.git-authors http://code.simplon.biz/svn/projects/tno/euphorie/Develop
Found possible branch point: http://code.simplon.biz/svn/projects/tno/euphorie/Develop/trunk => http://code.simplon.biz/svn/projects/tno/euphorie/Develop/tags/1.0, 16165
Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1730.
Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1730.
refs/remotes/svn/trunk: 'http://code.simplon.biz/svn' not found in ''

error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Counting objects: 6, done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Total 6 (delta 4), reused 6 (delta 4)

[wichert]

The underlying git svn error can be correct by passing --no-follow-parent when running git svn fetch (or clone), but svn2git does not appear to have an option to specify that parameter.

[nirvdrum]

Thanks for digging in more. Is there any chance you could provide a patch? If not, could you provide everything I would need to execute svn2git precisely as you would (public SVN repo, authors file, etc.)? As you can probably imagine, it's difficult to fix things like this when I don't have a repository that would behave the same way.

[wichert]

The URL for the repository is in the ticket and supports anonymous access. This is the contents of the authors file:

wichert = Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
pilz = Alexander Pilz <[email protected]>
cornae = Cornelis Kolbach <[email protected]>
thomas = Wolfgang Thomas <[email protected]>
jcbrand = Jan-Carel Brand <[email protected]>
brand = Jan-Carel Brand <[email protected]>
maurits = Maurits van Rees <[email protected]>

[cybertoast]

I have the same issue with svn2git, but adding the --no-follow-parent in migration.rb did not solve the problem. Still have
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.

The sequence of events for me are a bit different from wichert's though:

Running command: git svn fetch 
Running command: git branch -l --no-color
Running command: git branch -r --no-color
Running command: git checkout -f master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.

[sleicht]

I stumbled over the same issue and like cybertoast I tried to patch migration.rb limited success. At first it continued but later the same error occurred. Does someone have any idea where the problem might be and how to solve it?

Thanks

[yamanyar]

I editted the migration.rb but no luck

svn2git http://43.212.96.18/repos/ebs/ox-moved-to-git-donot-use/ -v --authors ~/authors.txt --no-minimize-url
Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --no-minimize-url --trunk=trunk --tags=tags --branches=branches http://43.212.96.18/repos/ebs/ox-moved-to-git-donot-use/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/kaan/temp/.git/
Running command: git config svn.authorsfile /home/kaan/authors.txt
Running command: git svn fetch  --no-follow-parent
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: '/repos/!svn/bc/100/ebs/ox-moved-to-git-donot-use' path not found
W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history.
This may take a while on large repositories
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gTBFDvH2dgAJ:https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git/issues/12+svn2git+%22error:+pathspec+%27master%27+did+not+match+any+file%28s%29+known+to+git.%2Checked through r92100                                        
Running command: git branch -l --no-color
Running command: git branch -r --no-color
Running command: git checkout -f master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Running command: git gc
Nothing new to pack.

[xueruini]

Got the same problem. Any solution now?

[mejibyte]

Just got the same issue while running svn2git with this public repository:

svn2git svn://svn.icculus.org/tremulous/ --verbose

[xueruini]

I overcome the issue with two steps:

• use --no-follow-parent in migration.rb;
• list all authors appearing svn log in authors.txt, including (no author).

[mejibyte]

In my case, the error message disappeared when I removed the trailing slash, like this:

svn2git svn://svn.icculus.org/tremulous --verbose

[wongster80]

Ran into this issue. I simply removed the .git directory from the working directory and it started working. I did not have to add the extra flag --no-follow-parent. I think the .git directory might have become corrupted from my previous svn2git failed attempts.

[cclark]

I'm experiencing the same issue. I receive the same error
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.

I've tried adding the --no-follow-parent with no luck. I'm still digging in to what the underlying error really means to see if there is anything else I can try but don't have any leads at this point.

[statico]

I can confirm that adding --no-follow-parent to the two git svn fetch commands in migration.rb solved this issue for me. (My repo has the standard tags/trunk layout and the URL I used did not end in a slash.)

[bsutton]

I had the same problem and like wongster80 removing a possibly corrupt .git directory fixed the problem.

I had previously started then conversion and then ctrl-c part way through.

[mrazzari]

+1 to removing a possibly corrupt .git directory. It worked for me.

[paulschreiber]

Hit this problem. No trailing slash. Removing .git did not work. Adding --no-follow-parent did not working. I used a file:/// URL for my svn repo, if that matters.

Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk=trunk --tags=tags --branches=branches file:///tmp/svn
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/paul/cmsfsvn/.git/
Running command: git config --local svn.authorsfile authors.txt
Running command: git svn fetch --no-follow-parent 
Running command: git branch -l --no-color
Running command: git branch -r --no-color
Running command: git config --local --get user.name
Running command: git config --local --get user.email
Running command: git checkout -f master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
command failed:
2>&1 git checkout -f master

[paulschreiber]

i ended up importing from my original server (svn+ssh://) which was slow, but worked.