svn authors errors with git

[rschmitty]

I setup an authors file in ~/.svn2git/authors and then ran the following command

svn2git https://path/to/repo/website/trunk --no-minimize-url --trunk trunk --nobranches --notags --username rick --verbose

And it errored around git config --local

Running command: git config --local svn.authorsfile ~/.svn2git/authors
error: unknown option `local'
<git config example output here>
command failed:
2>&1 git config --local svn.authorsfile ~/.svn2git/authors

Running git 1.7.1

[rschmitty]

Hmm actually seems its a problem with the --local flag. I took out the authors file and now it errors on this:

Running command: git config --local --get user.email
error: unknown option `local'
usage: git config [options]
<snip>
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

[boxerab]

I am getting the same error.

[boxerab]

quoting from the git config documentation:

The file-option can be one of --system, --global or --file 

So there is no --local flag. This option should be removed.

[boxerab]

see issue #45. The error disappears when --local is removed from migration.rb, and the gem is rebuilt and installed.

[purestvfx]

I am getting the same error how do I get around this?

[martinlindhe]

Using current svn2git, you should use this syntax:

svn2git repository --authors filename.txt

as explained here: https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git#authors