Error synchronizing SVN to Git

[Simon]

I'm using the SVN to Git migration guide:

https://www.atlassian.com/git/migration#!migration-synchronize

So far everything has gone well. The Git repository was created and I have synchronized several times to keep the repository up to date with SVN.

However, today I am unable to syncronize and unfortunately I am not yet knowledgable enough about Git to understand what might cause this error.

I ran 'git svn fetch' successfully, but then when I tried to rebase using the Attlassian SVN migration scripts I got the following error. Is this a bug with the Atlassian SVN migration scripts?

$ java -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -jar ../svn-migration-scripts.jar sync-rebase
fatal: ambiguous argument 'heads/(detached from 22ff5b8)': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
An unexpected error occured, please attach /tmp/svn-git-migration.log to any related support issue
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Nonzero exit value: 128
	at scala.sys.package$.error(package.scala:27)
	at scala.sys.process.ProcessBuilderImpl$AbstractBuilder.slurp(ProcessBuilderImpl.scala:131)
	at scala.sys.process.ProcessBuilderImpl$AbstractBuilder.$bang$bang(ProcessBuilderImpl.scala:101)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Git.$(Utils.scala:127)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.SyncRebase$$anonfun$apply$2.apply(SyncRebase.scala:31)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.SyncRebase$$anonfun$apply$2.apply(SyncRebase.scala:30)
	at scala.collection.immutable.Stream.foreach(Stream.scala:291)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.SyncRebase$.apply(SyncRebase.scala:30)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Main$$anonfun$7.apply(Main.scala:57)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Main$$anonfun$7.apply(Main.scala:52)
	at scala.Either.fold(Either.scala:44)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Main$delayedInit$body.apply(Main.scala:47)
	at scala.Function0$class.apply$mcV$sp(Function0.scala:34)
	at scala.runtime.AbstractFunction0.apply$mcV$sp(AbstractFunction0.scala:12)
	at scala.App$$anonfun$main$1.apply(App.scala:60)
	at scala.App$$anonfun$main$1.apply(App.scala:60)
	at scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:59)
	at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45)
	at scala.collection.generic.TraversableForwarder$class.foreach(TraversableForwarder.scala:30)
	at scala.App$class.main(App.scala:60)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Main$.main(Main.scala:22)
	at com.atlassian.svn2git.Main.main(Main.scala)

[cofarrell · Accepted solution]

Hi Simon,

Looks like the migration scripts aren't handling the case where you are in an "detached head" state (ie. you're not on a branch). What branch were you on when you ran sync-rebase? If you checkout master and run the scripts again does it work?

Cheers,

Charles

[Simon]

Thanks, that solved it. Not sure how I ended up in a detached head state (I didn't knowingly switch branch), but running 'git checkout master' then re-running the scripts solved the problem.

[Kevin Wiesmüller]

I got the same Problem with the Plugin but i do not understand how I should run them again, I can not access my stash repo to delete it or do anything because of the error "Detached heads are not supported" what should i do? how can i delete the repo?