Ideally, git-svn should be able to do the initial commit, but since it isn't, this patch makes it give an accurate error message. Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- git-svn.perl | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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); -- 1.5.5.1.72.gccbb6.dirty -- 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