git-svn not a git command?

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While attempting to get an old svn dump of a project under git control, I ran into an interesting problem. Whenever I run git svn, I get an error saying it isn't a git command, yet there is documentation for it that I can pull up using git help. Is there something wrong with my install, or am I just missing something here?

Edit: I should probably also mention that I am running msysGit version 1.6.1.9.g97c34 under Windows XP, and the error I get is:

$ git svn 
git: 'svn' is not a
git-command. See 'git --help'.

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Pigueiras · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-12 10:18:08Z

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I just check on my newly installed ubuntu box and it wasn't installed even with git-core installed. A simple:

sudo apt-get install git-svn

or your distro equivalent should fix it.

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alexsaintx · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-03 19:39:03Z

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On Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-svn

answered Feb 3, 2014 at 19:39

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jgomo3 Over a year ago

The ppa is optional. git-svn is included in the standard repository.

nsaura Over a year ago

Old question but still when git-svn is installed on Ubuntu, I think it should be added that we have to use git svn and not git-svn

Sridhar Sarnobat Over a year ago

I needed the ppa part on Ubuntu 16.

Pau Fracés Over a year ago

apt-get update needs sudo also. I've tried to update the response but since the edit is less than 6 characters SO doesn't allow me to do it

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-14 09:00:34Z

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I am not sure that git svn has ever worked with recent Git Windows distribution (post 1.5.6).

Many problems have been reported before, so git svn may very much be not included in current msysGit releases.

Another current active "Git on Windows" development mingw.git does state in its README that svn does not work.

This thread of Msysgit does suggest that git svn may be reintegrated at some points, but progress are still slow.

Update: from MSysGit1.6.2 (early March 2009), git-svn works again. See this SO question.

Update: with a modern (2017) Git for Windows 2.x, git svn is already included.
No need for sudo apt-get install git-svn, which would only be possible in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) shell session anyway.

edited Nov 14, 2017 at 9:00

answered Feb 9, 2009 at 8:00

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Tod Thomson Over a year ago

git svn is certainly bundled with Git now on Windows :)

VonC Over a year ago

@TodThomson I agree, and that is what my update from March 2009 is saying.

behelit Over a year ago

for windows 10 users sudo apt-get install git-svn

drkvogel · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-08 18:39:46Z

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It wasn't installed on my fresh install of Ubuntu on WSL -

sudo apt install git-svn

sorted it:

❯ git svn
git-svn - bidirectional operations between a single Subversion tree and git
...

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Uli Köhler · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-19 21:20:28Z

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Under my system I've had this trouble:

$ git svn
Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 29.

because I don't have Subversion Perl bindings installed. Try installing them and running the command again.

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Paul Over a year ago

I've also seen this with the Perl bindings installed in a different location than Git expected; corrected with a symlink.

vard · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-22 10:06:54Z

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For posterity: On CentOS 7, just run sudo yum install git-svn.

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merv · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-24 01:04:10Z

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MacPorts version:

port install git +svn

(Note: you likely need to port deactivate git first)

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Esko Luontola · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-21 22:17:17Z

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I had the same error under Cygwin 1.7. It was solved by installing the git-svn package with Cygwin setup.

answered May 21, 2009 at 22:17

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user1012316 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-11 09:17:33Z

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On Gentoo , you should build git with USE="subversion"

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Rogério Arantes · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-26 20:55:59Z

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On CentOS I used

sudo yum install git-svn

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merv · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-12 21:51:24Z

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Had a similar problem on RHEL6, i.e.,

Can't locate Git/SVN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 25.

My solution:

sudo yum install subversion-perl
chmod 755  /usr/local/share/perl5/ (and sub dirs, as they were only readable by root)

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Andrew Kirna Over a year ago

This was exactly my issue. The /usr/local/share/perl5 directory and contents needed those permissions. Thank you!

skiphoppy · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-01 14:57:54Z

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If git-svn is not part of mSysGit, I recommend using a small UNIX server to host your gateway repository that clones your svn repository, and then clone that repository onto your Windows machine. This is the approach I am using for interacting with CVS from git.

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isapir · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-03 05:34:45Z

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On Fedora I had to install it with

sudo dnf install -y git-svn

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valeriana · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-20 04:07:51Z

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If you use Homebrew (or/are on MacOS) this is the command I used

brew install git-svn

link to docs

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