Question

I know the thread which command updates files for me at my current version number, not the newest files.

I run unsuccessfully at a Google-code project’s trunk

git svn update               

and I get

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Already at toplevel, but .git not found
 at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 235

I have not updated the repo for a month. A new version is released. I was last time able to update the repo by the above command.

How can you update a repo based on Svn by Git?

Answer 1

Locally, are you in a folder that was a checkout of the SVN repository, that was made by Git? Or is it a checkout that was made by SVN?

If I understand what you are trying to do, get the latest updates in an SVN repository, using Git… than this command

  git svn update

does not exist according to these docs. You should initialize a local Git version of an SVN repository by pulling the source using a command similar to:

  git svn clone http://code.google.com/blah -T trunk -b branches -t tags

… and then to get the latest updates in the trunk folder, you should:

  cd trunk
  git svn rebase

The examples on that documentation link are quite helpful.