I'm in the process of migrating from svn to git (on a local repo) where I'm trying to convert all our svn authors to git format by creating a text file under ~/.svn2git/authors.txt, for example:
jcoglan = James Coglan <jcoglan@never-you-mind.com>
stnick = Santa Claus <nicholas@lapland.com>
Then pass an authors option to svn2git pointing to that file:
$ svn2git http://svn.example.com/path/to/repo --trunk trunk --authors ~/.svn2git/authors.txt
I'm getting below error:
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/developer/mygitrepo/.git/
Author: system not defined in /home/developer/mygitrepo/.svn2git/authors.txt file
command failed:
git svn fetch
What does this mean?
It means that it's found an SVN commit that uses an id system and you haven't provided a mapping for that in your authors file. As a result, it doesn't know how to translate SVN's user system into a Git name/e-mail address, and so it can't create the commit for you.
You can fix this by adding another line in your authors file:
system = System <system@system.com>
(or whatever you want to use)