starteam to svn - unknown branch exception

[gpakosz]

Hello

I am trying to import a project from Starteam which has the following layout:
Project Name == "Foo Bar" (there is a space in the name) with the following view layout:

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Starteam Server (Starteam 5.3)
  Foo Bar (project)
    Foo Bar ("master" view)
      user 1 (reference view)
      user 2 (reference view)
      ...


I set the following configuraton options:

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use_file_copy=yes (should not be relevant for Starteam as per the configuration file comments)

trunk_path=trunk
branch_path=branches
tags_paths=tags
svnimporter_user_name=starteam
only_trunk=no

svnadmin.executable=svnadmin.exe
svnadmin.repository_path=C:/tmp/dump
svnadmin.parent_dir=.
svnadmin.tempdir=C:/tmp
svnclient.executable=svn.exe
svnadmin.verbose_exec=yes

svnadmin.path_not_exist_signature=non-existent in that revision

...

st.url=user:passwd@192.168.0.20:49201/Foo Bar/Foo Bar
st.tempdir=C:/tmp/importer


And here is the last entry in the log:

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10:58:40,811 [main]  INFO historyLogger:84 - EXCEPTION CAUGHT: org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnException: Unknown branch: Foo Bar
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.getBranch(SvnModel.java:209)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.addFileCopyToTag(SvnModel.java:336)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transformCommit(STTransform.java:139)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transform(STTransform.java:86)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.STProvider.buildSvnModel(STProvider.java:128)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.buildFullSvnModel(Main.java:147)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.run(Main.java:82)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.main(Main.java:49)


Does someone please know what's going wrong?
I am using svn-importer-1.1-SHAPSHOT-(after-M8) from 1 Februrary 2008 downloaded from the following page http://www.polarion.org/projects/svnimp ... d/nightly/
Thanks in advance,
Gregory

[gpakosz]

bumping, any hint please?
i'm still facing the problem, i wonder if it could be caused by the space characters in the project name and views names

[Landis]

I have seen this on some but not all of my StarTeam projects. When I see it I change to use_file_copy=no.

Hope this helps.

[kencorbin]

I think I tracked this down. The only way it can happen is if a name has been assigned to the trunk development path, probably something that only the starteam provider does. A revision on the main path with child labels will crash unless
The trunk only option is set, or
The ignore labels option is set, or
The file copy option is not set.

It would not recommend resetting the file copy option to get around this problem, you get a rather poor result if you do.

I build a version of svnimporter that (I hope) will fix this. You can get it by checking it out of the subversion repository, or wait until I get the webmaster to put it in the download section.

[jasonw401]

Hi Ken,

Could you please tell me if this issue has been fixed in version 1.2? I am trying to import a StarTeam project into SVN. I got the following error when a file is attached a label on StarTeam.

15:39:23,768 [main] INFO historyLogger:84 - date: 01/08/2011 3:39:23 PM
15:39:23,768 [main] INFO historyLogger:84 - mode: create full dump
15:39:23,768 [main] INFO historyLogger:84 - src provider: class org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.STProvider
15:39:23,768 [main] INFO historyLogger:84 - creating full svn model...
15:39:24,766 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision: Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc 1.2
15:39:24,766 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision: Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc 1.1
15:39:24,782 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision: Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc 1.0
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO STCommitsCollection:84 - Validating commits...
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO STProvider:84 - StarTeam model has been created.
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO Model:84 - Summary:
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO Model:84 - Files: 1
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO Model:84 - Revisions: 3
15:39:24,782 [main] INFO Model:84 - Commits: 3
15:39:24,938 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 1
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] branches
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 2
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add file] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 3
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create tag label_v_0_1
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs
15:39:24,985 [main] ERROR Main:96 - EXCEPTION CAUGHT: org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnException: Unknown branch: Interstage v10
at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.getBranch(SvnModel.java:209)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.addFileCopyToTag(SvnModel.java:337)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transformCommit(STTransform.java:139)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transform(STTransform.java:86)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.STProvider.buildSvnModel(STProvider.java:127)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.buildFullSvnModel(Main.java:158)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.run(Main.java:88)
at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.main(Main.java:51)

15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG STProvider:80 - cleanup
15:39:25,000 [main] DEBUG SvnAdmin:80 - cleanup
15:39:25,000 [main] INFO historyLogger:84 - duration: 1 seconds

Thanks,
Jason

[jasonw401]

Hi Ken,

Could you please tell me if this issue has been fixed in version 1.2? I tried to import a StartTeam project into SVN and got the following error when a file on StarTeam is attached with a label.

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15:39:23,768 [main]  INFO historyLogger:84 - mode: create full dump
15:39:23,768 [main]  INFO historyLogger:84 - src provider: class org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.STProvider
15:39:23,768 [main]  INFO historyLogger:84 - creating full svn model...
15:39:24,766 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision:    Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc    1.2    
15:39:24,766 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision:    Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc    1.1    
15:39:24,782 [main] DEBUG STHistoryParser:80 - Recorded revision:    Interstage v10/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc    1.0    
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO STCommitsCollection:84 - Validating commits...
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO STProvider:84 - StarTeam model has been created.
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO Model:84 - Summary:
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO Model:84 -  Files: 1
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO Model:84 -  Revisions: 3
15:39:24,782 [main]  INFO Model:84 -  Commits: 3
15:39:24,938 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 1
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] branches
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags
15:39:24,954 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 2
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add file] trunk/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs/JavaEE_Operators_Guide_Proposal.doc
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create new revision 3
15:39:24,969 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - create tag label_v_0_1
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test
15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG SvnModel:80 - add action: [add dir] tags/label_v_0_1/Interstage v10/110_SVN_Migration_Test/docs
15:39:24,985 [main] ERROR Main:96 - EXCEPTION CAUGHT: org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnException: Unknown branch: Interstage v10
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.getBranch(SvnModel.java:209)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.svnprovider.SvnModel.addFileCopyToTag(SvnModel.java:337)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transformCommit(STTransform.java:139)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.internal.STTransform.transform(STTransform.java:86)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.stprovider.STProvider.buildSvnModel(STProvider.java:127)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.buildFullSvnModel(Main.java:158)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.run(Main.java:88)
   at org.polarion.svnimporter.main.Main.main(Main.java:51)

15:39:24,985 [main] DEBUG STProvider:80 - cleanup
15:39:25,000 [main] DEBUG SvnAdmin:80 - cleanup
15:39:25,000 [main]  INFO historyLogger:84 - duration: 1 seconds



[cypherpunk]

I think I tracked this down. The only way it can happen is if a name has been assigned to the trunk development path, probably something that only the starteam provider does. A revision on the main path with child labels will crash unless
The trunk only option is set, or
The ignore labels option is set, or
The file copy option is not set.

It would not recommend resetting the file copy option to get around this problem, you get a rather poor result if you do.

I build a version of svnimporter that (I hope) will fix this. You can get it by checking it out of the subversion repository, or wait until I get the webmaster to put it in the download section.

I'm having this problem. Any news on how to fix it?

[chelito103]

I build a version of svnimporter that (I hope) will fix this. You can get it by checking it out of the subversion repository, or wait until I get the webmaster to put it in the download section.

Have you posted this fix anywhere? I have the same issue now, so I'm assumming it was never committed to the trunk.

[mpunch]

Has there been any fix implemented for this? We're currently looking into migrating from StarTeam to SVN. It doesn't seems like there has been much support for this migration. Could someone please inform me as to where I can get more information on this?

Thanks!

[wtruitt]

I would also be interested in a fix for this STProvider bug. I was glad to have found the forum. The initial download using the StarTeam 2006 libraries seemed to be a hurdle at first. Then I found an old installer for the StarTeam Server. I was surprised to find that the software has several later releases once I found the forum. I thought maybe a fix had been checked in, but I am running into this same unknown branch error with the latest "1.5.0-SNAPSHOT" version.

Can some of you that have gone further through the process tell me what looks best in SVN from the options that can be used to go around the error (only_trunk=yes, st.ignorelables=yes, or use_file_copy=no)? From one of the comments, it sounds like the use_file_copy=now is least desirable.

[jvignola]

Has anyone been able to resolved this issue?

Thanks,
Joe.