git-svn not working, reporting "fatal: cannot exec 'git-svn': Not a directory"

Question

I am trying to migrate an svn repo to git. but i am stucked at

git svn clone https://svn.xxx.com/repos/xxx/trunk ~/temp

which throws a "fatal: cannot exec 'git-svn': Not a directory" error

say i'm in directory ~/temp, even i run just "git svn", I got the same error message.

tried

man git-svn

works well.

What's the problem please?

is it a repos url or a file path? I tried both git svn clone https://svn.xxx.com/repos/xxx ~/temp and file:///Sites/xxx (my local svn repo) ~/temp. still the same error — Jinzhao Huo, May 09 '12 at 09:18
MAC OSX SL, git should be installed by following github's instructions — Jinzhao Huo, May 09 '12 at 09:42
It's related to your PATH, check [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4110132/11343) — CharlesB, May 09 '12 at 09:55
I'm not sure if I understand that answer. but i do have the root access on my local machine. and the git version is 1.7.2.1 — Jinzhao Huo, May 09 '12 at 10:06
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/11048/discussion-between-charlesb-and-jinzhao-huo) — CharlesB, May 09 '12 at 10:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '12 at 12:46

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I would recommend you to use SubGit project (subgit.com) for migration. It preserves the most important SVN concepts (EOLs, ignores, tags, merges and so on) much better than git-svn. And also it keeps in sync SVN and Git repository so you can use both SVN and Git interfaces until you run

subgit uninstall <path/to/svn/repo>

answered May 12 '12 at 12:46

Dmitry Pavlenko

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Thanks for your recommendation. we'll drop SVN once we've git settled :) – Jinzhao Huo May 14 '12 at 07:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '12 at 02:45

After doing these, problem seemed gone. and i got a new version git 1.7.3.4, not sure whether it was a problem of version 1.7.2

sudo port deactivate git-core
sudo port install git-core +svn

Refer to http://redlinesoftware.com/blog/2008/2/24/converting-subversion-repositories-to-git

But my git-svn and git-svnimport are busted! section

git-svn not working, reporting "fatal: cannot exec 'git-svn': Not a directory"

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