Hi Rupert, > is there any other means of upgrading to the new svn layout but > cloning the repository afresh again? the error message i get is: > > $ git svn rebase > Migrating from a git-svn v1 layout... > Data from a previous version of git-svn exists, but > .git/svn > (required for this version (1.7.5.4) of git-svn) does not exist. > Done migrating from a git-svn v1 layout > Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history > Can you say in more concrete steps how you created the repository where this happens? I've seen this error message in repositories that are clones of git-svn repositories. They are "simple" git repositories with no link established to the SVN repository (no notion of svn in the .git/config). If this is the case, read on: I usually fix this by initializing git svn in the repo: > git svn init [same params as the initial git svn clone] [svn url] And then you have to update the latest git-svn ref to point at the last git-svn commit. Usually this goes something like: > git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn refs/remotes/origin/master ... assuming that the git-svn repo you cloned from is a remote repo with the name "origin". Note that in a git svn clone with branches the above git-svn reference will be probably be branch name instead. Hope this helps, -Thomas -- 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