Question

(RHEL 6.2, git 1.7.6.4)

I’m using git-svn to access an SVN repository. I’ve done the initial checkout with the commands

git svn init -s https://svn.myhost.com/svn/myrepo/
git svn fetch

I can checkout the latest on the trunk fine, but I can’t find a way to switch to a branch without destroying and recreating the entire local copy of the code and starting from scratch using the desired branch.

What is the appropriate git-svn command to change from https://svn.myhost.com/svn/myrepo/trunk/ to https://svn.myhost.com/svn/myrepo/branches/mybranch ?

Answer 1

Your Subversion branches should be available as normal Git branches. Try

git branch

to list the available branches. If that doesn’t list what you expect, try git branch -a to show all of them. To switch to a specific branch, do:

git checkout new-feature