"Use of uninitialized value $u"

[mickaelistria]

Hi,

While giving a try to svn2git on my local machine for JBoss Tools repo - which is quite huge, I got the following error, that I don't understand:

$ /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/svn2git -v http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools
Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk=trunk --tags=tags --branches=branches http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools
Running command: git svn fetch
Found possible branch point: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk => http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/branches/jboss, 78
Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1728.
Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1728.
refs/remotes/svn/trunk: 'http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools' not found in ''

The first time I run this command, I could see the files being fetched. Now I don't see the fetch occur (probably files are cached), but I always get this issue.

Could someone help me on this?

[nirvdrum]

It looks like that error is coming from git-svn. svn2git ultimately wraps around git-svn, which is some perl script shipped with git proper. Off-hand I'm not sure what that error is related to.

[mickaelistria]

Thanks, I'll ask git-svn folks.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Kevin Menard <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

It looks like that error is coming from git-svn. svn2git ultimately wraps
around git-svn, which is some perl script shipped with git proper.
Off-hand I'm not sure what that error is related to.

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[marcjay]

Updating to the latest version of git (from 1.7.5.4 to 1.7.8.4) solved this issue for me.

[ctapmex]

look this solution
http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread/ecc415c113bed8de#

[jean]

Madden's hack, referenced by @ctapmex, worked for me when importing https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/collective.recipe.supervisor/
svn2git (2.2.1)

[plentz]

@ctapmex tip did the trick. thanks!

[abdul]

@ctapmex, it works for me. thanks.

[developdaly]

@ctapmex worked for me as well!

[duncanj]

@ctapmex and for me too, thanks! Google groups link changed to https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/msysgit/7MQVwRO-2N4

[mateor]

Worked for me as well, exact same failure but at line 106 in /usr/share/perl5/Git/SVN.pm

[anselmdk]

Seems to work for me as well, at least it doesn't die.
This is what needs to be done (though it feels a bit edgy editing git core files...):

Hey guys, I thought maybe I'd have a look at that line 2097 and see if there was anything I could do about it myself. I was able to determine that, in this specific case, the variable $u was not defined (or something). So, without knowing much about what's actually going on there, I changed this: 

$u =~ s!^\Q$url\E(/|$)!! or die 
        "$refname: '$url' not found in '$u'\n"; 

to this: 

if(!$u) { 
        $u = $pathname; 
}else { 
        $u =~ s!^\Q$url\E(/|$)!! or die 
        "$refname: '$url' not found in '$u'\n"; 
} 

and then just hoped for the best. So far it seems to be working. I'm getting some "Couldn't fine revmap" messages but I don't know if that's something I should be concerned about. Anyway, I don't know if this is a proper solution but I hope will help in some way. 

[if6was9]

@mateor I ran into this as well.

@anselmdk thanks for the fix

Like you, I'm not sure whether this is the most appropriate fix to the underlying root cause or not.

I created a fork of git and applied this patch to support some conversions I am doing. I applied the fix to 1.8.2.3 and master.

https://github.com/if6was9/git/commit/364c42061ade26469f47980bf768d625099b866a

I'm going to submit to the patch to the git mailing list and see what they say.

[jaolho]

Editing the config file worked for me: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17827367/2613458

[chung-leong]

In my case, editing the config file makes it work for a bit, then it fails again. The fix posted by anelmdk allows the process to go the whole way.

[boxerab]

+1 for anselmdk 's fix

[leeplay]

+1 for anselmdk 's fix :)

[archibaldovitch]

Why can't this fix make its way upstream ?

[amedee]

@mickaelistria what was the result of you contacting the git-svn people? Who did you contact?

The fix proposed by @anselmdk does not work for me, because I have the error at line 106, see #99

@archibaldovitch I think the reason is because upstream has not been contacted yet, and/or nobody knows who to contact at upstream, and how. Maybe?

[tbowden]

As I reported here: #66 (comment)

Fix for me was making sure I was running svn2git in a genuinely empty directory ("rm -rf .git") if a previous attempt had aborted for some other reason.