Unable to determine upstream SVN information from HEAD history

Question

Why do I get this error message?

Answer 1

It happened to me too. And I don't remember to have done something unusual. SVN repo existed, Git version was the most recent. There were 2 commits in local git repo that I wanted to commit to SVN. But when I ran:

git svn dcommit

I got the error.

git svn fetch

and

git svn rebase

didn't help. I got the same error after running them.

I think the problem could be caused by the fact that I did a squash of 2 local git commits previously. If it was the reason I still don't understand why a squash is a problem in this case (If you know, please, comment it).

Anyway I solved the problem by cloning the svn repo again to another working directory.

git svn clone .../trunk

Added the problematic git repo as a remote one:

git remote add last /cygdrive/c/data/problem_repo

and did a cherry-pick on all the commits that weren't yet moved to SVN. After that I could successfuly run:

git svn dcommit