Error 127 when running "git svn init" on cygwin

Question

I am trying to convert a local SVN repository to git using git-svn under cygwin and fail. Here's what happens:

$ git svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk file:///cygdrive/e/repository/project init: command returned error: 127 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I installed msysgit and it also failed, but with a much better error message (expected FS format "2", found format "4"), which has become a useful discussion on Google. It seems that git-svn cannot handle the local file system format of the current TortoiseSVN. The solution is to start svnserve and use the svn: protocol through localhost.