When passing a bad --trunk option to `git svn clone`, like for example the same URL that we are cloning: C:\Windows\system32>git svn clone https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject --no-metadata -A c:\temp\svn_to_git_users.txt --trunk=https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject --tags=https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject/tags --branches=https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject/branches c:\code\Git_myproject One gets an "Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///)" error: [...] W: +empty_dir: branches/20080918_DBDEPLOY/vendor/src/csharp/MS WCSF Contrib/src/Services W: +empty_dir: branches/20080918_DBDEPLOY/vendor/src/csharp/RealWorldControls/References r530 = c276e3b039d8e38759c6fb17443349732552d7a2 (refs/remotes/origin/trunk) Found possible branch point: https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject/trunk => https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject/branches/20080918_DBDEPLOY, 529 Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /mingw32/share/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 101. Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /mingw32/share/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 101. refs/remotes/origin/trunk: 'https://mycompany.svn.beanstalkapp.com/myproject' not found in '' C:\Windows\system32> Let's fix that by just die()ing when we have an uninitialized value because we cannot get commit metadata from a ref. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- perl/Git/SVN.pm | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/perl/Git/SVN.pm b/perl/Git/SVN.pm index b2c14e2..d94d01c 100644 --- a/perl/Git/SVN.pm +++ b/perl/Git/SVN.pm @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ sub resolve_local_globs { "existing: $existing\n", " globbed: $refname\n"; } - my $u = (::cmt_metadata("$refname"))[0]; + my $u = (::cmt_metadata("$refname"))[0] or die + "$refname: no associated commit metadata\n"; $u =~ s!^\Q$url\E(/|$)!! or die "$refname: '$url' not found in '$u'\n"; if ($pathname ne $u) { -- 2.8.0.rc2 -- 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