svn2git --rebase failed, porcelain?

[jrochkind]

Any ideas what's going wrong here?

[rochkind@xs001 umlaut]$ svn2git --rebase
command failed:
2>&1 git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no
[rochkind@xs001 umlaut]$ git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no
error: unknown option `porcelain'
usage: git status [options] [--] <filepattern>..

Hmm, not a recent enough git version to support "--porcelain"? Is it documented what git version you need for svn2git?

Also, I'm trying a --rebase here, because I already used svn2git on this same machine... with the same version of git installed. In fact, I swear I've done a rebase succesfully before too. Not sure what's changed.

[jrochkind]

Ah, I figured out what changed was I upgraded svn2git from 2.1.0 to 2.1.2

Downgrade back to 2.1.0, it works again -- it still outputs git errors complaining about the "--porcelain" command, but in fact it does the "--rebase" just right anyway.

However, I still advise saying in the README what version of 'git' are required to be installed to be supported properly.

[stas]

Did you try upgrading git to latest stable 1.7.+?

[jrochkind]

Yep, that's clearly what would be required. A bit inconvenient to do on my system, would require sysadmin/ops intervention. So I just downgraded svn2git to 2.1.0, and i'm good.

I still recommend you document in the README what versions of git are required for latest svn2git.

[stas]

I believe this can be closed.