Hmmm. Is this the proper channel to report issues or should I go somewhere else? Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hello guys, > > we have to turn some projects managed by Subversion into a GIT-based > solution. However the conversion unfortunately fails with an error: > > ============== %< ============== > [...] > Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/origin/tags/v_2.1.1) > 450fa2c84a8fc087a2a66e5fb3d6d22096671f81 > Following parent with do_switch > M changes.xml > M pom.xml > couldn't truncate file at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git.pm line > 1325. > $ git --version > git version 2.5.0 > ============== %< ============== > > Apart from the line number, the same error occurs also with GIT version > 2.4.6 and 2.3.6 (latest stable version in Gentoo). > > The command to create the GIT repository was: > ============== %< ============== > $ git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang -s > --no- metadata --preserve-empty-dirs -A ~/tmp/authors.txt commons-lang > ============== %< ============== > > Note, that the command succeeds even for 2.4.6 if we drop the --preserve- > empty-dirs option - at the cost of some empty directories which are used > to trigger profiles for Maven; i.e. without those we cannot reproduce > released versions. > > Cheers, > Jörg -- 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