johnalbin / git-svn-migrate Goto Github PK

on OSX 10.10.3 with a fresh checkout:

$ ./fetch-svn-authors.sh --help

clears the screen and displays (to start)

NAME \n\tfetch-svn-authors.sh - Retrieves Subversion usernames from a list of \n\tURLs

system info is:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.10.3
BuildVersion:   14D136

mingw shell installed on windows 10, throws "cat: tmp-authors-transform.txt: No such file or directory".
Issuing touch tmp-authors-transform.txt before fetch-svn-authors.sh solved it. I am not sure if it is good to check for the file before trying to append?!

./fetch-svn-author.sh should be ./fetch-svn-authors.sh. I didn't want to send a pull request for 1 byte :)

This is merely a suggestion (and might be heavy-handed, but I thought I would throw it out there). When migrating from svn, empty directories do not (and technically, cannot) get added to git because git doesn't store empty directories. My suggestion is to create the folder and place a .gitignore file with the following contents:

*
!.gitignore

This would at least allow the directory to get created in the new repo, because if an empty directory is committed to svn, the developer probably expects it to exist for the application code to be in a normal state.

Hi, i tried to convert a svn-repository with several branches to git, everything worked like a charm, except moving the trunk/ to master/.

~> git branch -m trunk master
fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists.

I was suprised and looked in "master/" there was a single ".gitignore" file.

Hope for help soon

I've tried running this script a couple of times and it keeps stopping at line 205 of the git-svn-migrate.sh:

echo "- Converting svn:ignore properties into a .gitignore file..." >&2;

At least that's the last thing that get's output. The terminal just never moves passed this line. Is it possible this process just takes a long time? I see the .gitignore gets created but it never moves on as far as I can tell. It's been sitting for at least five minutes.

Do you really need /bin/echo ?
Without this line, you can also run it on Windows.

Greetings

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