Hmmm. Is this the proper channel to report issues or should I go somewhere 
else?

Jörg Schaible wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> we have to turn some projects managed by Subversion into a GIT-based
> solution. However the conversion unfortunately fails with an error:
> 
> ============== %< ==============
> [...]
> Found branch parent: (refs/remotes/origin/tags/v_2.1.1)
> 450fa2c84a8fc087a2a66e5fb3d6d22096671f81
> Following parent with do_switch
>         M       changes.xml
>         M       pom.xml
> couldn't truncate file at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.2/Git.pm line
> 1325.
> $ git --version
> git version 2.5.0
> ============== %< ==============
> 
> Apart from the line number, the same error occurs also with GIT version
> 2.4.6 and 2.3.6 (latest stable version in Gentoo).
> 
> The command to create the GIT repository was:
> ============== %< ==============
> $ git svn clone http://websvn/svn/essvn/standard/java-commons/lang -s
> --no- metadata --preserve-empty-dirs -A ~/tmp/authors.txt commons-lang
> ============== %< ==============
> 
> Note, that the command succeeds even for 2.4.6 if we drop the --preserve-
> empty-dirs option - at the cost of some empty directories which are used
> to trigger profiles for Maven; i.e. without those we cannot reproduce
> released versions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg


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