svn2git error: [svn-remote "svn"] unknown

Question

Trying to convert my local SVN repo to Git using svn2git as suggested by github.

I ran this code: svn2git http://localhost/repo-name

And I got this error:

RA layer request failed: OPTIONS of 'http://localhost/repo-name': 200 OK (http://localhost) at /usr/bin/git-svn line 1923

[svn-remote "svn"] unknown

Google and a fairly thorough search in SO yielded no results.

Can anyone shed some light here?

But why you don't file:// protocol? Isn't the repository local? An intermediate layer would slow down the translation. — Dmitry Pavlenko
– Dmitry Pavlenko, Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 10:59

nwinkler · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-28 09:08:16Z

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If the repository is local and has trunk/branches/tags layout, you may use SubGit:

$ subgit install path/to/svn/repository

The resulting repository will be at path/to/svn/repository/.git It has another translation engine than svn2git (svn2git uses "git-svn" in it), so it shouldn't have this problem.

If your repository has no trunk/branches/tags layout, you may use SmartGit for conversion that also uses another translation engine, not git-svn.

edited Jun 28, 2012 at 9:08

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answered Jun 22, 2012 at 11:26

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rgin Over a year ago

I see. I'll test these out tomorrow when I get more time. Thanks for the feedback.

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