I recently got this error when trying to git svn clone an existing repo: Couldn't open a repository: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///home/cody/work/SmartPay': Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/cody/work/SmartPay' at /usr/share/perl5/Git/SVN.pm line Then I created my own new svn repo to ensure my install of svn-git was working: cody@cody-XPS-L521X:~/svn-repos$ svnadmin create testrepo cody@cody-XPS-L521X:~/svn-repos$ svnserve -d -r /home/cody/svn-repos cody@cody-XPS-L521X:~/svn-repos$ cd /tmp cody@cody-XPS-L521X:/tmp$ git svn clone svn://localhost/testrepo Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/testrepo/.git/ So I've verified my install is working and I understand how to clone a local repo. What svn repo versions is git-svn compatible with? If the svnadmin version used to create the existing repo I want to clone was very old is that what is giving me the error? Is there a workaround? How should I proceed? -- 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