Hi Klaus, Klaus wrote: > this works ok. >  git svn clone svn://localhost/MyPrj MyPrj --username=MyUserName >  > this causes the error (I added "--stdlayout") >  git svn clone svn://localhost/MyPrj MyPrj --stdlayoutÂ--username=MyUserName >  > last line of error output > â >  M Wiki/MyPrj_wiki/MyPrjHistory.wiki > W: -empty_dir: MyPrjAll/trunc/MyPrjGui/DotNet11MainMenu.cs > r141 = ad4166b68d89c4b795fb74a4fc09168160b2f60e > (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207@142) > W: +empty_dir: MyPrjAll/trunc/MyPrj.Gui > r142 = 0decd283bb36f9296172970eeab377b6f93777ba > (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207@142) > Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207) 0decd283bb36f9296172970eeab377b6f93777ba > Following parent with do_switch > Successfully followed parent > r143 = a4861b50a5f1c067210b30951dc06012a7d2da25 > (refs/remotes/tags/LastGuiMonolit_071207) > fatal: refs/remotes/trunk: not a valid SHA1 > update-ref refs/heads/master refs/remotes/trunk: command returned error: 128 Is your repository public? If not, could you give a sketch of the project history, for example by running $ git log --oneline --name-status from a successful (non-stdlayout) clone? > note: although i am using ms-windows7 i mailed this report to the debian > mailing-list because i think that Redirecting discussion to the git mailing list; maybe someone there will have other ideas for debugging. Thanks for reporting, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html