Git Subversion

Initializes the git-svn repository corresponding to a remote subversion repository with the standard layout.

git svn init <svn-repo-url> --stdlayout --prefix=origin/

Standard layout consists of trunk/, tags/, branches/. If the layout isn't standard, you can instead specify the subfolders :

git svn init <svn-repo-url> --trunk=<folder> --tags=<folder> --branches=<folder> --prefix=origin/

Prefix is optional, but the default for git-svn will soon be origin/.

Once you've initialized the repository, you need to populate it with the commits from subversion. If you prefer, you can use git svn clone to do an init and fetch together.

If you prefer to initialize the repository and fetch all at once, you might prefer:

git svn clone <svn-repo-url> --stdlayout --prefix=origin/

You have roughly the same options as you would for git svn init, but it will be followed up with an implicit fetch.

You can't have local changes when you do this, so you'll need to commit or stash first.

Push the commits that you've committed to your git repository to the remote subversion repository.

Create a new branch in the remote subversion repository:

command 'git svn branch <branch name>'

If you specify -t or --tag, it'll be a tag instead of a branch, but git svn tag is maybe simpler.

Create a new tag in the remote subversion repository:

git svn tag <tag name>

This may be easier to remember than git svn branch --tag <branchname>.

List all the remote subversion branches that your git repository knows about. This is the same command you'd use in git.

Fetches new branches from subversion that your git repository doesn't know about.

If you want to create a local branch matching a remote branch but you don't want to switch to it:

git branch <local branch name> remotes/<prefix>/<remote branch name>

Once you've created your local branch, switching to it is done in the same way as within git:

git checkout <local-branch-name>

If you want to create the branch and switch to it right away, you can combine the two:

git checkout -b <local-branch-name> remotes/<prefix>/<remote-branch-name>

Finding the git commit corresponding to a revision number in the remote subversion repository:

git svn find-rev r<change number>

Getting the subversion repository information like svn info would.

Extract subversion ignore metadata and put it in your git config directory:

git svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude