Error on git-svn: fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/origin/feature with spaces

Question

Hi,

I'm migrating a SVN to Bitbucket following the guide https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/migrating-convert

My SVN repo had on an early revision a branch with a space on its name, and that caused mergeinfo to contain a reference to that branch. Giving this error:

Checking svn:mergeinfo changes since r7902: 106 sources, 1 changed
fatal: Not a valid object name refs/remotes/origin/feature 11870
cat-file commit refs/remotes/origin/feature 11870: command returned error: 128

I've tried using the --ignore-paths="^Branches/feature\s.*" option, but it does not solve the problem, since the mergeinfo is on another branch.

Any suggestions of how to fix it?

Regards,

Fran

Fran Vicente · Answer

I have finally decided to use "subgit" and "git-filter-repo", and with those tools I completed a migration without any problem.

The guide https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/migrating-convert is a good overview, but looks outdated, and the tools suggested are not stable.

Baskar Annamalai_2plula · Answer

The branch on SVN has a space in it, but the branch in git had this space converted to %20 (URL encoded). I don't think git would allow a space character in the branch or would read encoded characters directly. It might be worth fixing this from SVN and then reattempting the migration.

Best regards,
Baskar Annamalai 
ServiceRocket.

Fran Vicente · Answer

The branch does exist, but git-svn encodes the space to %20 -> remotes/origin/feature%2011870

The problem is that it only does that when creates the branch, and not during parent resolution based on mergeinfo.

fran@svn2git:~/prs-full.git$ git branch -a
remotes/origin/Active
remotes/origin/Inactive
remotes/origin/LongTerm
remotes/origin/ShortTerm
remotes/origin/ZeroMQ
remotes/origin/feature%2011870
remotes/origin/feature11033
remotes/origin/feature11220
remotes/origin/feature11242
remotes/origin/feature11242@284
remotes/origin/feature11421
...
remotes/origin/trunk

I have tried other options like --ignore-refs without success.

With --no-follow-parent it continues and finishes, but the repo size seem to duplicate for every branch pushed.