Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] documentation changes for converting from svn to git

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 01:28:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > +To access a local copy of the repository, use svnserve:
> > +
> > +    svnserve -d -r svn_repo
> > +
> > +Then access it with git svn with something like:
> > +
> > +    git svn clone svn://127.0.0.1/myproject -A authors-transform.txt 
> > --stdlayout ./temp.checkout
> > + 
> > +where myproject is the subdirectory under svn_repo.
> 
> There is actually no need to start a local svn server and I wouldn't
> recommend it in the docs.  Instead use the path to the local file as
> shown in the previous section.
> 
>   file:///path/to/svn_repo
> 
> Note the URL format for the local files.  Meaning three slashes.  As
> "file://" is the scheme and "/path/to" is the path and the host part
> being empty defaults to localhost.  Note that I'm just the messenger
> here!

I tried that first but got this problem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27240428/git-svn-migration-failing-with-svn-1-8/27325713#27325713