Hello, tl;dr: Can I get Git/SVN working on my MacBook if there are external references in the repository? If not, are there alternatives that I can leverage? I'm trying to use git svn to clone a repository that contains externals. On my Windows7 machine it works perfectly. On my Mac (running OSX 10.11.3) it fails silently after creating the empty local repository. The posts that speak to some of the issues surrounding this are over two years old, so I'm hoping things have changed. I've tried with the versions of Git and SVN installed with XCode, and with newer versions installed with HomeBrew and MacPorts. The latest version of Git (2.7.2) is the one I've done my troubleshooting with. I found the threads that speak of needing to link the SVN Perl modules into directories being searched by the Perl runtime, and have done something comparable with these: sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/darwin-thread-multi- 2level/SVN /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/darwin-thread-multi-2level/SVN sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/darwin-thread-multi- 2level/auto /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/auto If I try with Git's debugger turned on, like so: GIT_TRACE=1 git svn clone -s https://my-remote-repo I get a bunch of redundant messages that look similar to the below, with something suspicious happening right at the time Git encounters its first external reference: ... many, many of these Checked through r45000 16:49:19.677091 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn. branches-maxRev' '45000' 16:49:19.684111 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags- maxRev' '45000' Checked through r45100 16:49:19.721522 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn. branches-maxRev' '45100' 16:49:19.728460 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.tags- maxRev' '45100' 16:49:19.784923 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn. reposRoot' 'https://a-remote-external' ... once this line appears, the "Checked through r*" messages disappear. ... The rest of the output looks like these. Then the process dies. 16:49:19.807647 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn. branches-maxRev' '45172' 16:49:19.814647 git.c:348 trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn. tags-maxRev' '45172' If I run with the Perl debugger like so: PERLDB_OPTS="NonStop frame=5" /opt/local/bin/perl5.22 -d $(git --exec-path)/git-svn clone -s https://my-remote-repository I get the following stacktrace mush right before it crashes. It looks like multiple processes are sending output to TTY so the stacktraces are interleaved. There is a reference to Error::throw() down at the bottom that I hope will be helpful. in .=main::post_fetch_checkout() from /opt/local/libexec/git-core/ git-svn:387 in $=main::verify_ref('HEAD^0') from /opt/local/libexec/git-core/ git-svn:1716 in $=Git::command_oneline(ref(ARRAY), ref(HASH)) from /opt/ local/libexec/git-core/git-svn:1806 in @=Git::command_output_pipe(ref(ARRAY), ref(HASH)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:314 in @=Git::_command_common_pipe('-|', ref(ARRAY), ref(HASH)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:344 in @=Git::_maybe_self(ref(ARRAY), ref(HASH)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1561 in $=UNIVERSAL::isa(ref(ARRAY), 'Git') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1549 in .=Git::_check_valid_cmd('rev-parse') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1569 from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1598 in .=Git::_setup_git_cmd_env(undef) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1608 in .=Git::_execv_git_cmd('rev-parse', '--verify', 'HEAD^0') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1609 in @=Error::subs::with(ref(CODE)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:325 in $=Error::catch('Git::Error::Command', ref(CODE)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:325 in .=Error::subs::try(ref(CODE), ref(HASH)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:325 in .=CODE(0x7fa8a367bd40)() from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:421 in .=Git::_cmd_close('rev-parse --verify HEAD^0', ref(GLOB)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:319 in .=Error::throw('Git::Error::Command', 'rev-parse --verify HEAD^0' , 128) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1640 in $=Git::Error::Command::new('Git::Error::Command', 'rev-parse --verify HEAD^0', 128) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/ Error.pm:184 in $=Error::new('Git::Error::Command', '-text', 'command returned error', '-cmdline', 'rev-parse --verify HEAD^0', '-value', 128, '-outputref', undef) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:1466 in $ CODE(0x7fa8a31d3db8)(ref(Git::Error::Command), undef, '') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:426 in $=Error::subs::run_clauses(ref(HASH), ref(Git::Error::Command), undef, ref(ARRAY)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:432 in $=Scalar::Util::blessed(ref(Git::Error::Command)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:324 in $=UNIVERSAL::isa(ref(Git::Error::Command), 'Git::Error::Command') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:324 in .=CODE(0x7fa8a23a74b8)(ref(Git::Error::Command), ref(SCALAR)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:345 in .=Error::throw(ref(Git::Error::Command)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22/Git.pm:324 in $=CODE(0x7fa8a31d3db8)(ref(Git::Error::Command), undef, '') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:354 in $=Scalar::Util::blessed(ref(Git::Error::Command)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:440 in $=UNIVERSAL::can(ref(Git::Error::Command), 'throw') from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:440 in .=Error::throw(ref(Git::Error::Command)) from /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/Error.pm:442 -- 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