Hi Thorsten, there's more fun though. GIT (2.4.6) fails differently if I add additionally the "--no-minimize-url": ==================== %< ================= [...] W: -empty_dir: trunk/src/test/serialization/com/elsagsolutions r40223 = 7983efa910e6cd606cc63a6b6b365048df1e11a9 (refs/remotes/origin/trunk) M src/main/java/com/scalaris/commons/lang/util/ArrayUtils.java r40261 = ecf4747a88073353c9731e6e69c079d66e7aac2d (refs/remotes/origin/trunk) M src/test/java/com/scalaris/commons/lang/util/ArrayUtilsTestCase.java r40262 = 96eda7427de3f1c082e88c23458be197a3b20a7a (refs/remotes/origin/trunk) M changes.xml A src/main/java/com/scalaris/commons/lang/net/MimeTypes.java r41127 = 00d0a652e5ef20c18b9d4764dd70383c1d10177b (refs/remotes/origin/trunk) M changes.xml Failed to strip path 'src/main/java/com/elsagsolutions/commons/lang/io/.gitignore' ((?^:^trunk(/| $))) ==================== %< ================= the error in the Perl module happens only without that option. Both errors do not occur without option "--preserve-empty-dirs". Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 2015-08-14 12.38, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Any idea how to proceed? > > Git itself doesn't version empty directories at all, only files > (and soft links, sub modules....). I know, but "git svn clone" creates a .gitignore file in such a case. > Git creates a directory as a "side effect" to be able to store files > there. > > May be I am off-topic, but would it be possible to fill the empty > directories with a dummy file ".empty" ? That does not help when converting the Subversion history. It's failing long before HEAD of trunk. > Add those to svn and force Git to create a nearly empty directory. That's what GIT normally does by default on its own. However, I cannot change the Subversion history. GIT has to deal with it while converting (and normally it does, as my test proofed with the demo Subversion project). 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