error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.

[ensonic]

Instead of hijacking ticket #23, I'll try as a new one as it might be a different issue. See the log below:

• svn2git-2.1.2 (a --version option would be nice)
• the author file is okay, but same error happens without --authors
• it does not matter wheter I use --username or not
• it does not matter wheter I use --nobranches or not (but I don't want to preserve the branches anyway)
• same error happens if I convert the whole repo (giving trunk instead of trunk/bml) or another subproject (in the same repo)

I am getting a bit desperate and wonder what else I could try to shed light on this issue. Should't "git branch -l" show something already. Maybe you could add some sanity checks after each step and error out earlier. I have the feeling that the error in the description just means "sonmething failed along the way" :/

The only result is a single 24bytes small file (among the usual git infrastructure) .git/svn/refs/remotes/svn/trunk/.rev_map.489a8a1a-d840-0410-b443-d4df6bd36c0d

svn2git https://buzztard.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/buzztard/trunk/bml --username ensonic --authors ../authors.txt --verbose --nobranches Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --username=ensonic --no-metadata --trunk=trunk --tags=tags https://buzztard.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/buzztard/trunk/bml Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ensonic/projects/buzztard/git/bml/.git/ Using higher level of URL: https://buzztard.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/buzztard/trunk/bml => https://buzztard.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/buzztard Running command: git config --local svn.authorsfile ../authors.txt Running command: git svn fetch W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path '/trunk/bml' W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories Checked through r100 Running command: git branch -l --no-color Running command: git branch -r --no-color Running command: git checkout -f master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. command failed: 2>&1 git checkout -f master

[ensonic]

Okay, it seem that one needs to convert the whole repository and then use git filter-branch remove subprojects. That is if one has: trunk/ project1/ project2/

one cannot run svn2git using http://server.com/trunk/project1, but instead need to run it using http://server.com for each project and then filter: git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

Now I still need to figure how to fixup the messed up tags.

[andrewfhart]

Hey @ensonic, I was getting the same error you reported. Here's what I did to get just what I wanted out of svn2git for a single nested subproject:

To export project 'x' in a repo at http://example.org/svn, where 'x' is a nested project with structure ./x/trunk ./x/branches and ./x/tags, and where the first revision in which 'x' appears in the repository is r153, I did:

svn2git http://example.org/svn --verbose --revision 153 --trunk x/trunk --branches x/branches --tags x/tags

and it seems to have figured everything out nicely for project 'x'. Basically, I just pushed the project name (x) onto the --trunk, --branches, and --tags paths and it worked out alright.

Thanks for your comment on this issue, it got me started on the right train of thought!

[technicalreality]

In my case I got the error above due to an issue somewhere in the .git directory. I deleted the .git directory and re-ran svn2git and things started working.

[lvnilesh]

svn2git http://svn.quantsoftware.org/openquantsoftware/trunk --verbose Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk=trunk --tags=tags --branches=branches http://svn.quantsoftware.org/openquantsoftware/trunk Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/nilesh/projects/test/.git/ Using higher level of URL: http://svn.quantsoftware.org/openquantsoftware/trunk => http://svn.quantsoftware.org/openquantsoftware Running command: git svn fetch Running command: git branch -l --no-color Running command: git branch -r --no-color Running command: git config --local --get user.name Running command: git config --local --get user.email Running command: git checkout -f master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. command failed: 2>&1 git checkout -f master

[zakkak]

I second @technicalreality. Removing .git fixed my problem.

[tforster]

I'm getting the same issue. I've removed the .git folder but still the same error message. Any other thoughts?

[tforster]

FYI, it is with one of our original projects in SVN from quite a while ago. I see that the containing folder immediately below trunk was renamed. Originally www it is now webcontent. Could the renaming be affecting it?

[madrugado]

Thanks for the tip, @technicalreality. It's work for me like a charm.

Also I've an issue with svn2git similar to @tforster 's one. In my case the clue was to understand that trunk folder has the name of the project itself, so the option "--rootistrunk" was my choice. Hope this'll help.

[abhinavsingh]

@technicalreality Thanks for that tip. Deleted .git folder and re-run svn2git, all is good now. Though I wonder why this tip works.

[drmjc]

thanks to @andrewfhart and @technicalreality and @btjones from https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git/issues/59)

I wanted to convert a heavily nested SVN repo to individual git repo's. eg https://server.com/svn/inteomics/Mark/R/excelIO/ where each project had to traditional structure: {trunk,branches,tags}

I needed to do 3 things: 1) use a fresh folder -- ie no .git 2) enable -v and enter my password every time the 'Authentication realm: https://server:443 Subversion Repositories' message popped up (>5 times). 3) explicitly specify --trunk, --branches and --tags as below:

svn2git https://server.com/svn/inteomics --username marcow -v --trunk Mark/R/excelIO/trunk --branches Mark/R/excelIO/branches --tags Mark/R/excelIO/tags