A word of warning: I\'m a n00b to git in general. My team uses feature branches in svn, and I\'d like to use git-svn to track my work
I use git-svn but I haven't used the features that interoperate with SVN branches. Having said that, I notice that the tutorial you were following didn't use the -T, -b, -t options to git svn init. These options tell git-svn what the upstream trunk/branches/tags directories are named, which might be important in your situation.