Re: [pcre-dev] HELP needed, please

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Author: Reini Urban
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: pcre-dev, Zoltán Herczeg, exim-maintainers
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] HELP needed, please
You can check my GitHub mirror.
https://github.com/rurban/pcre

Philip Hazel via Pcre-dev <pcre-dev@???> schrieb am Fr., 20. Aug.
2021, 15:38:

> I have started to migrate PCRE2 and have fallen at the first hurdle. Having
> created a GitHub project, I tried to import from the existing Subversion
> repo, but that didn't work. It didn't seem to be able to find something it
> could work with.
>
> I then tried to use "git svn" to clone the svn repo onto my local machine
> as a git repo that can then be pushed to GitHub. However, I cannot get this
> to work. Here's an example of the errors I'm getting:
>
> $ git svn clone http://vcs.exim.org/pcre2/code/ --authors-file=users.txt
> --no-metadata --prefix "" -s pcre2
> Session URL does not match expected session URL: Repository moved
> permanently to 'https://git.exim.org/pcre2/code' at
> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 310.
>
> It has set up the new pcre2 directory as a git repo, but of course it's
> empty. Does anybody know how I should proceed? Googling hasn't produced
> anything helpful yet.
>
> I all else fails, I can populate the new local repo by hand, I suppose, and
> then push to GitHub.
>
> Regards,
> Philip
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