Hi, i am observing some weired "git svn clone" behavior during my try to migrate the Scaffold Hunter [1] SVN repository [2] to Git: if i just use the command $ git svn clone svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code --no-metadata -s code everything went smoothly. Now i wanted to replace the authors SVN-logins by useful names and created a mapping file with the following content: anjenson = Andrew Zhilka <> bernhard.dick = Bernhard Dick <> dominic.sacre = Dominic Sacré <> doxmoxbox = doxmoxbox <> falkn = Falk Nette <> henning.garus = Henning Garus <> kakl = Karsten Klein <> klein = Karsten Klein <> lappie00 = Jeroen Lappenschaar <> michael.hesse = Michael Hesse <> nlskrg = Nils Kriege <nlskrg@xxxxxxxxx> philipp.kopp = Philipp Kopp <> philipp.lewe = Philipp Lewe <> schrins = Sven Schrinner <> shamshadnpti = Shamshad Alam <> srenner7 = Steffen Renner <> sturm89 = Werner Sturm <> thomas.schmitz = Thomas Schmitz <> thorsten.fluegel = Thorsten Flügel <> till.schaefer = Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tillschaefer = Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I executed: $ git svn clone svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code --authors-file=/home/till/temp/code-authors-transform.txt --no-metadata -s code and got the error message "Author: klein not defined in /home/till/temp/code-authors-transform.txt file". I tried a workaround by using a python script to return the entries i have already defined in the authors file: $ git svn clone svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code --authors-file=/home/till/temp/code-authors-transform.txt --authors-prog=/home/till/temp/authors.py --no-metadata -s code The import process now went over the "klein" commit. The weired thing is, that a few SVN usernames seem to be recognized in the authors file and a few are passed to my script (I logged the output). However, at the first revision, where a tag was added in the SVN repo the cloning process crashed with the error message: Found possible branch point: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code/trunk => svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code/branches/subsearch, 17 Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git/SVN.pm line 101. Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git/SVN.pm line 101. refs/remotes/origin/trunk: 'svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code' not found in '' One problem I am seeing in the SVN repo is, that between the revisions 97 and 102 the trunk folder was absent. the old one was moved to some subfolder and a new one was created. Therefore, I started the cloning beginning with rev 102 using the command line option "-r102:HEAD". However, the same error occurred for some later tag (the first tag after rev 102). Found possible branch point: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code/trunk => svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code/tags/release-2.0, 1565 Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git/SVN.pm line 101. Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git/SVN.pm line 101. refs/remotes/origin/trunk: 'svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code' not found in '' I would be very glad if someone has a hint about what is going wrong here. Is this a bug in git or is something wrong with the SVN repo? used software versions: - git 2.5.0 - subversion 1.8.14 Regards, Till [1] http://scaffoldhunter.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://svn.code.sf.net/p/scaffoldhunter/code/trunk -- Dipl.-Inf. Till Schäfer TU Dortmund University Chair 11 - Algorithm Engineering Otto-Hahn-Str. 14 / Room 237 44227 Dortmund, Germany e-mail: till.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: +49(231)755-7706 fax: +49(231)755-7740 web: http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/staff/schaefer pgp: https://keyserver2.pgp.com/vkd/SubmitSearch.event?&&SearchCriteria=0xD84DED79 -- 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