Hi Thorsten, This is a common problem when there are colliding branch names with branch directories. You can have multiple branches sharing a prefix, and git uses directories to represent this):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2527355/using-the-slash-character-in-git-branch-name So you already have a reference here: .git/refs/remotes/trunk <-- a file with a SHA in it (the above is probably the first branch that gets created when git-svn starts to run.) Later git-svn finds a branch inside branches/trunk/factory - and it tries to create this (the branch is called factory, and it has a prefix "trunk/") . So it first tries to create a directory .git/refs/remotes/trunk to represent the prefix "trunk/" - but it fails because a file already exists in that spot. Now, for workaround: 1) If the branches/trunk/factory branch still exists, try to delete it. Restart the git-svn clone from scratch. 2) If that doesn't work, add an exclude for it: --ignore-paths "branches/dev|branches/trunk" .. and restart the git-svn clone from scratch. 3) If it still doesn't work, you might have to fall back to trying to "jiggle the .git/refs/remotes/ files during the git-svn clone. When git-svn clone halts with your failure message, try going into that directory, and temporary move away the trunk reference (the file). Then continue the cloning by doing "git svn fetch" inside the repository base directory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/R5iVVacRhhAJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
