Hi, A few weeks ago I reported a symlink related error with git-svn and I've now had a chance to track down a few more details. The trigger seems to be if a file is removed from svn and then later added as a symlink. The error I get is: error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink foo.txt (Invalid argument) This is from the call to symlink(new, path) in entry.c and it seems that new is ''. Here is a recipe to reproduce: ## First create an svn repository svnadmin create SVN123-repos svn co file:///Users/seth/temp/SVN123-repos SVN123 cd SVN123 echo 123 > foo.txt svn add foo.txt svn ci -m "add a file" ## Now mirror using git-svn cd .. mkdir GIT123 cd GIT123/ git svn init file:///Users/seth/temp/SVN123-repos git svn fetch ## Next remove and add a file as a symlink cd .. cd SVN123 echo 123 > bar.txt svn add bar.txt svn ci -m"add bar" svn rm foo.txt svn ci -m "remove foo" ln -s bar.txt foo.txt svn add foo.txt svn ci -m"add foo as symlink" ## Finally, try to rebase cd ../GIT123/ git svn rebase git version 1.5.1.53.g77e6f svn 1.4.0 + seth - 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