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Steven
Steven

Reputation: 310

Git Svn Clone initializes repo, but git repo is empty

So I've been trying to migrate my company's CVS and SVN repositories over to Git for our modern systems. So I've created the authors file with the format:

last_fi = FirstInitial LastName <[email protected]>

From there, I should be able to run this command:

git svn clone -s --authors-file=authors.txt "https://company.svnrepo.path/repoparent/repo" gitreponame --prefix=svn/

When this is done, however, I get this:

Initialized empty Git repository in c:/checkout/git/Suite/.git/ Using higher level of URL: https://company.svnrepo.path/repoparent/repo => https://company.svnrepo.path/repoparent W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: REPORT request failed on '/svnfolder/middir/!svn/bc/100': File not found: revision 100, path '/repoparent' 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 C:\checkout\git> 3048

It checks r100 through the current revision (r3048) and initializes the git repo, but there's no master, no HEAD and no commits to make. I have no working directory beyond the initial git init folders and files.

I've been trying all kinds of odd and strange things just to move forward and I'm completely stumped. I think I've been looking at it too long and I'm missing something basic. But if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1356

Answers (1)

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 310

So a lot of collaboration and some luck went into finding a solution for this problem. As it turns out, the path to the remote SVN server is case sensitive whereas most of the other aspects of the command are not. When I was typing repoparent, it should have been RepoParent. This seems like a stupid mistake, but I hope it can help someone else out there!

Upvotes: 4

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