Git svn clone not working using a SVN repository

Question

In this way I can clone a SVN repository:

svn co svn+ssh://<username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name> /var/www/<repository_name>

It starts to create the expected files under /var/www/<repository_name>

I've installed the git svn package, and I tried to clone this SVN repository using GIT:

git svn clone svn+ssh://<username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name> /var/www/<repository_name>

It gives the following error message and it doesn't download anything:

svn-remote.svn.url already set: ssh://<username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name>
wanted to set to: <username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name>

I've also tried:

git svn clone <username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name> /var/www/<repository_name>

Which gives the same error message:

svn-remote.svn.url already set: ssh://<username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name>
wanted to set to: <username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name>

Also tried:

git svn clone ssh://<username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name> /var/www/<repository_name>

And it gives the following error message:

Initialized empty Git repository in /var/www/<repository_name>/.git/
Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for  'ssh://<username>@<url>/lib/svn/<repository_name>' at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 2299

Any idea of what I might be doing wrong?

have you tried cloning to a different directory?

Chronial
– Chronial

2013-04-29 15:16:45 +00:00
Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 15:16 — Chronial
– Chronial, Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 15:16
What version of Git are you using? And on which OS?

John Szakmeister
– John Szakmeister

2013-04-30 09:49:10 +00:00
Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 9:49 — John Szakmeister
– John Szakmeister, Commented Apr 30, 2013 at 9:49

rfc1484 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-30 12:18:55Z

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It seems that the problem was related to permissions in the folder, I've tried git svn clone in another folder in my Home directory instead of /var/www and it worked like a charm.

Here the complete command I've used:

git svn clone svn+ssh://<svn_username>@<url>/var/lib/svn/<repository_name> /home/<my_user>/<repository_name>/

answered Apr 30, 2013 at 12:18

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Daniel Gomez Rico · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-10 20:37:14Z

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I also used git svn clone -s to get the svn commit comments too.

answered Apr 10, 2014 at 20:37

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Max Mumford · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-02 11:48:30Z

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I also got these issues but by not specifiying a target directory:

sudo git svn clone svn+ssh://<username>@<host>.net/var/svn/<project>

Should be simply:

sudo git svn clone svn+ssh://<username>@<host>.net/var/svn/<project> .

answered Nov 2, 2013 at 11:48

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