svn2git: Cannot setup tracking information

Question

I am trying to migrate a SVN project to git with thel help of svn2git. When executing the command it exits with the following error:

Running command: git branch          


        

Answer 1

I would like to add a quick and dirty solution to this without changing code!

Every time you get the error, just manually change branch and continue your svn2git command.

so to go through the workflow:

Running the command

svn2git ....

Got the error

Running command: git branch --track "0.0.9" "remotes/svn/0.0.9"
fatal: Cannot setup tracking information; starting point 'remotes/svn/0.0.9' is not a branch. 

Manually change branch (Copy the Running command: line and removing --track)

branch "0.0.9" "remotes/svn/0.0.9"

Continuing with svn2git

svn2git ...

note ... after the svn2git above is whatever your svn2git command is