Question

OK, so I’ve managed to

git svn clone http://repository/project MyProj

And that gives me this hierarchy

Project 
 |
 |____branches
 |
 |____tags
 |
 |____trunk

I was kind of hoping that in gitk --all I would see those branches translated into git branches. Was I expecting too much?

The question is, where do I go from here? Do I just work inside one of the branch folders?

UPDATE

For others hit by this problem, the reason it wasn’t working for me is that I thought that the path to my SVN project was http://repository/project, where as actually it was http://repository/project/subproject, so git-svn wasn’t finding the branches/tags/trunk in the expected place.

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

mkdir MyProj
cd MyProj
git svn init http://repository/project --stdlayout

This tells git svn that trunk/tags/branches are to be expected in your project, and that branches should be treated as git branches.