The problem is that the first thing it prints is Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ even if actually created a subdirectory and changed into it first. But to the user, it looks like it is creating a .git/ dir in the directory he/she is started git from. --- git-svn.perl | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) This change makes it more chatty, which might not be a good thing. But I think the previous output was worse. diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index 777e436..d4450ca 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ sub do_git_init_db { sub init_subdir { my $repo_path = shift or return; + print "Creating directory $repo_path\n"; mkpath([$repo_path]) unless -d $repo_path; chdir $repo_path or die "Couldn't chdir to $repo_path: $!\n"; $ENV{GIT_DIR} = '.git'; -- 1.5.3.4.213.gb3127-dirty -- David Kågedal - 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