svn to git conversion

Question

I am trying to convert a SourceForge project from Subversion to Git. According to some Googling, it should be possible to use this command:

git svn clone http://PROJECT.svn.sourceforge.net/ PROJECT.git

Where PROJECT is the project name at SourceForge, to get a SVN project checked out into a local git repository.

However this just gives the following error message:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/git/PROJECT.git/.git/
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Core.pm line 584.
XML data was not well-formed:  at /usr/bin/git-svn line 1385

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 and Git is version 1.5.6.3.

I found a bug reported on Fedora that seem to be similar, but it has not been resolved, so I do not know where the problem is. Am I using the command incorrectly, or is it a bug?

Cebjyre · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-11 00:17:05Z

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From a svn project page it looks like you are using the wrong URL - try:

git svn clone http://PROJECT.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/PROJECT PROJECT.git

I just successfully checked one out (with git 1.6.2 on OS X 10.5) with:

git svn clone http://javaautoupdater.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/javaautoupdater ok.git

answered Mar 11, 2009 at 0:17

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Zitrax Over a year ago

Thank you, that was it. That error message was not very helpful though.

Cebjyre Over a year ago

yeah, took a bit of searching around to find it - the main hint to me was that svn log wasn't working with the URL type you were using

user331536 · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-03 15:29:26Z

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I had the same problem, and it turns out that I had just rebooted and needed to ssh-add my keys back in. Try ssh'ing into the box that git-svn is trying to connect to and see what error you get.

answered May 3, 2010 at 15:29

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trusktr · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-25 05:09:28Z

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Try a tool called svn2git. Read here for details: https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion.

answered Aug 25, 2012 at 5:09

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