svn to git conversion

Question

I am trying to convert a sourceforge project from svn to git. According to some googling it should be possible to use this command:

git svn clone http://PROJECT.svn.sourceforge.net/ PROJECT.git

where PROJECT is the project name at sourceforge to get a svn project checked out into a local git repository.

However this just gives the following error message:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/git/PROJECT.git/.git/ Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Core.pm line 584. XML data was not well-formed: at /usr/bin/git-svn line 1385

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 and git is version 1.5.6.3.

I found a bug reported on fedora that seem to be similar, but it has not been resolved so I do not know where the problem is; am I using the command incorrectly or is it a bug ?

Answer 1

From a svn project page it looks like you are using the wrong URL - try:

git svn clone http://PROJECT.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/PROJECT PROJECT.git

I just successfully checked one out (with git 1.6.2 on OS X 10.5) with:

git svn clone http://javaautoupdater.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/javaautoupdater ok.git

Answer 2

I had the same problem, and it turns out that I had just rebooted and needed to ssh-add my keys back in. Try ssh'ing into the box that git-svn is trying to connect to and see what error you get.