Re: GIT-SVN: Corrupted commits when using --preserve-empty-dirs

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Plomer
There is a strange workaround for SVN-repos, containing directories that were replaced by symlinks in the past, properly cloned into GIT (with empty dirs): You have to import it part-by-part ... i.e. fetch revision 1-3 and then fetch 4-5: git svn clone -r 1:3 --preserve-empty-dirs file://`pw

GIT-SVN: Corrupted commits when using --preserve-empty-dirs

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Plomer
Hi, if I clone a SVN repository with --preserve-empty-dirs it terminates at some point with i.e. following error: folder/subfolder was not found in commit 2dcb008c220f5f6fe33700c9e7deb0c8fa2b8607 (r4) I tracked things down to the following problem: - r1: Create a directory with subdirectory with