Question

I am new to git, and have a subversion repository that I want to be able to import into a git repository occasionally (for deployment). So I want to perform most of the updates using svn but wanted to see what’s the best way to push it to git (just the default/master branch).

Answer 1

I know you only want to import the master/trunk branch of your svn repository, but I would like to mention svn2git in order to import your svn into a git repository.

It is better than git svn clone because if you have this code in svn:

  trunk     ...   branches     1.x     2.x   tags     1.0.0     1.0.1     1.0.2     1.1.0     2.0.0 

git-svn will go through the commit history to build a new git repo.
It will import all branches and tags as remote svn branches, whereas what you really want is git-native local branches and git tag objects.
So after importing this project, you would get:

  $ git branch   * master   $ git branch -a   * master     1.x     2.x     tags/1.0.0     tags/1.0.1     tags/1.0.2     tags/1.1.0     tags/2.0.0     trunk   $ git tag -l   [ empty ] 

After svn2git is done with your project, you’ll get this instead:

  $ git branch   * master     1.x     2.x   $ git tag -l     1.0.0     1.0.1     1.0.2     1.1.0     2.0.0 

Finally, it makes sure the HEAD of master is the same as the current trunk of the svn repo.