git svn migration failing with svn 1.8

Question

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:

Answer 1

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.