git svn migration failing with svn 1.8
git, osx-lion, svn, version-control
Solution
I got an answer on the git-users email list.
The solution is to run a local svnserver and use the `svn` protocol when running `git svn clone` instead of the `file` protocol. That avoids `git-svn` needing to parse the svn 1.8 file format.
Suppose your repository is in a directory `/path/to/repository/test-svn`. Change into the `/tmp` directory and run
svnserve -d -r /path/to/repository
Then you can run
git svn clone svn://127.0.0.1/test-svn -s
Afterwards, stop the svnserver and delete the temporary svn repository.
Problem
I'm following the steps in: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Git-as-a-Client to move an svn repository to git. My local svn version is: `$ svn --version svn, version 1.8.10 (r1615264) compiled Aug 25 2014, 10:52:18 on x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0` git version: `$ git --version git version 2.1.0` When I clone the repository I get an error reading the local file system format: ``` $ git svn clone file:///tmp/test-svn -s Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/test-svn/.git/ Couldn't open a repository: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///tmp/test-svn': Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: Unable to open repository 'file:///tmp/test-svn': Expected FS format between '1' and '4'; found format '6' at /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.1.0/lib/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 310 ``` According to this svn release note FS format 6 was introduced in svn 1.8: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#revprop-packing Could it be the git 2.1 Perl script isn't yet compatible with this svn release? More importantly how can I get this svn repository converted to git?