Work-around for failing “git svn clone” (requiring full history)

Question

I want to convert a Subversion repository sub-directory (denoted by module here) into a git repository with full history. There are many svn copy opera

Answer 1

I recently migrated a long list of SVN repositories into Git and towards the end ran into this problem. Our SVN structure was pretty sloppy, so I had to use --no-minimize-url quite a bit. Typically, I'd run a command like:

$ git svn clone http://[url]/svn/[repo]/[path-to-code] \
            -s --no-minimize-url \
            -A authors.txt

The last few migrations I ran had a space in the URL. I don't know if it was the space or something else, but I was getting the same error you were seeing. I didn't want to get into modifying config files if I didn't have to, and luckily I ended up finding a solution. I ended up skipping the -s --no-minimize-url options in favor of explicitly declaring the paths differently.

$ git svn clone http://[url]/svn/[repo]/ \
            --trunk="/[path-to-code]/trunk" \
            --branches="/[path-to-code]/branches" \
            --tags="/[path-to-code]/tags" \
            -A authors.txt \
            --follow-parent

• Note that I added --follow-parent from your example, but I'm also not sure that it made any difference.
• Remember that these repos had spaces in them, hence the "" around the trunk/branches/tags paths.