$ git-svnimport -v -s 4552 -T trunk/ulog -b dummy_branches -t dummy_tags http://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter I manually commited 4859,4860, and 4861. They included a charactor encoded with iso8859-1 (umulauted a ) and git-svnimport failed to get svn log. $ git-svnimport -v -T trunk/ulog -b dummy_branches -t dummy_tags http://svn.netfilter.org/netfilter