Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All is in the title ;-).
>
> The command
>
> git svn clone (URL of an empty SVN repo here)
>
> works, creates an empty git repository. I can perform the initial
> commit there, but then, "git svn dcommit" says :
>
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/moy/local/usr/bin/git-svn line 414.
> Committing to ...
> Unable to determine upstream SVN information from HEAD history
>
> I guess a correct management of the initial commit in git-svn would be
> hard to implement, but at least, the error message can be improved.
> First step is something like the patch below, and better would be for
> "git svn clone" to warn that it won't be able to do much with the
> cloned repo.
Thanks Matthieu,
It shouldn't be *that* hard to implement being able to start an empty
SVN repository from scratch, actually. Of course, there are about
a billion other things people have been asking for in git-svn that I
keep forgetting to implement.
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
> index b864b54..9a70c1e 100755
> --- a/git-svn.perl
> +++ b/git-svn.perl
> @@ -410,10 +410,12 @@ sub cmd_dcommit {
> $head ||= 'HEAD';
> my @refs;
> my ($url, $rev, $uuid, $gs) = working_head_info($head, \@refs);
> - print "Committing to $url ...\n";
> + if ($url) {
> + print "Committing to $url ...\n";
> + }
> unless ($gs) {
> die "Unable to determine upstream SVN information from ",
> - "$head history\n";
> + "$head history.\nPerhaps the repository is empty.";
> }
> my $last_rev;
> my ($linear_refs, $parents) = linearize_history($gs, \@refs);
>
--
Eric Wong
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