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Asked: 2026-05-31T22:03:51+00:00

I am trying to clone my project on google code svn into a local

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I am trying to clone my project on google code svn into a local git repository.

when running git svn clone http://dobberman.googlecode.com/svn -s dobberman i get the following error message:

RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (303 See
Other) in response to OPTIONS request for
‘http://dobberman.googlecode.com/svn’ at /usr/lib/got-core/git-svn
line 1923

Anyone familiar with this ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Normally, the message indicates that the repo is no longer there and has moved to a different location.

    But if I try git svn clone http://dobberman.googlecode.com/svn -s dobberman, everything works fine… I don’t get an error message.

    Looking closer shows me that the repo is empty though. Also, git log tells me: fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'. Obviously something went wrong here.

    -s indicates standard repo layout. But the SVN repo has no /trunk sub-folder, no branches sub-folder and no tags folder. I guess this is the reason why there are no revisions. Try removing the -s switch and only do a 

    git svn clone http://dobberman.googlecode.com/svn dobberman
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