How do I make git-svn use a particular svn branch as the remote repository?

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Hank Gay picture Hank Gay · Oct 10, 2008 · Viewed 30.9k times · Source

A word of warning: I'm a n00b to git in general. My team uses feature branches in svn, and I'd like to use git-svn to track my work on a particular feature branch. I've been (roughly) following Andy Delcambre's post to set up my local git repo, but those instructions seem to have led git to pick the svn branch that had changed most recently as the remote repository; the problem is that's not the branch I care about. How do I control which branch git-svn uses? Or am I approaching this completely wrong?

UPDATE: I did use the -T, -b, and -t options (in my case because the svn repo has multiple projects, but I want the git repo to contain only the project I'm working on).

Answer

Hank Gay picture Hank Gay · Oct 13, 2008

Muchas gracias to Bart's Blog for this handy reference for svn branches in git. Apparently all I needed was to specify a remote branch when creating the git branch, e.g., 

git checkout -b git-topic-branch-foo foo

where foo is the name of the remote branch.

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