[git-users] git-fast-import (+ svn-fe) bails out on my repo

2013-03-07 Thread Björn Töpel
I'm importing a huge repository using svn-fe and git-fast-import - both compiled from git's repo. git-fast-import crashes with: "fatal: Empty path component found in input", and the crashing command is "ls :202791". The SVN commit causing the "empty" ls command is a "svn cp $SVN_ROOT $SVN_ROOT

[git-users] git fails to follow history after delete and add+moved

2013-04-07 Thread Björn Töpel
I've imported a SVN repository into git, and for some scenarios git fails to track the history of a file. E.g. the initial file structure is /foo/bar.c and bar.c has some history. At one commit X, /foo/bar.c is deleted, and then later re-added in commit Y as /baz/foo/bar.c When I invoke 'g