git svn - git-svn clone fails unexpectedly

Question

I run the following:

git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A users.txt -r 3760:4662 svn://kumquat.geoplan.ufl.edu/Projects/S4-Geocoding S4-Geocoding-SVN.git

It begins running and runs fine for a while, then bombs:

...
        M       S4.Geocoding.Client/App.xaml.cs
        M       S4.Geocoding.Client/MainPage.xaml.cs
        M       S4.Geocoding.Client/CodingPage.xaml
        M       S4.Geocoding.Client/CodingPage.xaml.cs
r4163 = 498dad8ce3730390393fc13b183fdbbff7108e6b (refs/remotes/trunk)
        M       S4.Geocoding.Client/CodingPage.xaml.cs
r4164 = 728b706b27d60d91659c144c3fac98cdbd1b09b2 (refs/remotes/trunk)
Found possible branch point: svn://kumquat.geoplan.ufl.edu/Projects/S4-Geocoding/trunk => svn://kumquat.geoplan.ufl.edu/Projects/S4-Geocoding/branches/auto-advance-crash-report-viewer, 4160
Use of uninitialized value $u in substitution (s///) at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1728.
Use of uninitialized value $u in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 1728.
refs/remotes/trunk: 'svn://kumquat.geoplan.ufl.edu' not found in ''

What could be going on? I don't know where to start to troubleshoot this.

Answer 1

As me_and suggests, this is probably a Git bug. After poking around the source code, it appeared that the problem was related to metadata. I was able to work around it by removing the --no-metadata flag.