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
