Hi, I can confirm, that the patch (see mail: "[PATCH] git-svn: parse authors file more leniently") fixes the "Author: **** not defined in **** file" problem in my case. Downgrading to subversion 1.8.13 (from 1.8.14) also fixes the branching crash in revision 17. With subversion 1.8.14 i still get: 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 '' Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2015, 14:32:07 schrieb Michael J Gruber: > Till Schäfer venit, vidit, dixit 26.08.2015 21:57: > > 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 > > Is there a specific reason for "--no-metadata"? The man page advises > against it. Basically, it keeps you from converting the history in > chunks. (You can always filter-branch everything after a complete, "one > shot" conversion which may be done in stages.) i was basically following the tutorial at git-scm [1] (which is also somewhat outdated in the later svn branch conversion). Anyway, i did not read the manual :-/ (man-page) Regards, Till [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git > > > 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: > > That first part is weird already. The reason is that author-file > processing and author-prog output processing use different perl regexps. > I will follow up with a patch. > > > 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? > > The layout change (no root) certainly doesn't help. We shouldn't crash, > though. > > > used software versions: > > - git 2.5.0 > > - subversion 1.8.14 > > The conversion goes through for me with (your other options and) your > authors file and specifying a stupid authors prog: > > --->8--- > #!/bin/sh > grep "$1" /tmp/t/authors | head -n 1 | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -c'2-' > --->8--- > > and: > > git version 2.6.0.rc0.178.g4177fa5 > svn, Version 1.8.13 (r1667537) > > with our without --authors-file... > > (It went also through with a patched git-svn and just the authors file.) > > I don't think git-svn has changed since git 2.5.0. Maybe you can > downgrade svn for the one-shot conversion? I don't see anything > suspicious in their changelog but don't remember it as being overly > complete. > > git svn served us well in making itself mostly obsolete. The downside is > that not many are using it any more. Keeping up with subversion changes > (to keep git svn working) has become more and more difficult. > > Michael -- Dipl.-Inf. 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