svn2git failing saying Author: VisualSVN Server not defined in ./authors.txt file

Question

I am trying to migrate to git from svn and it fails by throwing the below error:

sethu@csmartserver:~/csmart/git/csmart$ sudo /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/svn2git http://localhost/svn/csmart --authors ./authors.txt --verbose
Running command: git svn init --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk=trunk --tags=tags --branches=branches http://localhost/svn/csmart
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = "en_IN:en",
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_IN"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Running command: git config --local svn.authorsfile ./authors.txt
Running command: git svn fetch 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = "en_IN:en",
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_IN"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Author: VisualSVN Server not defined in ./authors.txt file

command failed:
2>&1 git svn fetch 

My authors.txt file is of the below format:

jdoe = John Doe <[email protected]>

Could anyone help understand how to fix this issue please?

Answer 1

Just ran into this. For svn2git, you'll need to add a line in your Authors file like follows:

VisualSVN Server = Visual SVN Server <[email protected]>

Answer 2

The solution that worked for me: Encoding of the authors-transform file on Windows must be "UFT-8 without BOM".

Just use some smart editor that can do the convertion.

Answer 3

I would skip that script altogether unless it does something you need

Assuming your repo has the normal trunk/ branches/ tags/ layout

mkdir csmart
cd csmart
git svn init http://localhost/svn/csmart
git svn fetch

Ought to do the trick