Is there really no other place for a bug report? This will simply vanish in the list's noise ... Jörg Schaible wrote: > 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