On 2015-08-14 09.51, Jörg Schaible wrote: I can't reproduce it here: git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang Initialized empty Git repository in /home/xx/lang/.git/ RA layer request failed: OPTIONS of 'http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang': Could not resolve hostname `websvn': Host not found (http://websvn) at /Users/xx/lib/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 143 In other words, is there a way to make this reproducible for others? If not, how could the problem be tracked down and fixed (from other people than you or somebody in your organization ?) > 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