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Asked: 2026-05-29T22:28:35+00:00

I have been using git-svn to work remotely on a spike for a new

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I have been using git-svn to work remotely on a spike for a new feature. Now I want to commit my changes to SVN, but on a different SVN branch than the one I first cloned. How do I do that ?

The original branch has changed, and I am not ready to merge the two. I would like to create a new SVN branch from the original branch, and commit the changes I have in git.

I have a shallow clone of just the one SVN branch:

git svn clone -r:HEAD svn://***/branches/main
git branch MySpike
git checkout MySpike
// Did some work, a lot of commits.

How do I commit my changes back to another SVN branch ? Is it possible ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Expanding on the.malkolm‘s answer:

    If you look in .git/config, you’ll find a line like fetch = branches/main:refs/remotes/git-svn. Add another similar line, referring to the name of the remote branch you want to commit to, and a name to give it locally (or, for the Subversion trunk, fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk).

    Then run git svn fetch. That’ll download the history of the branch you’ve just added; feel free to limit the revisions it fetches if that’s what you need.

    Then rebase onto the new branch, and commit from there!

    git rebase $(git merge-base remotes/git-svn MySpike) MySpike --onto remotes/newbranch
git svn dcommit
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