How do I make git-svn use a particular svn branch as the remote repository?

Question

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

Answer 1

You might also have a look at this: git-svn is a gateway drug - robby on rails.

I used something like this when I needed to make sure that my local branch was pointing to the correct remote svn branch:

git branch -r

to get the name of the remote branch I want to be tracking. Then

git reset --hard remotes/svn-branch-name

to explicitly change my local branch to point to a different remote branch.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I needed to run 'git svn fetch' first, since the branch I wanted to associate with had been created after my git client.

Answer 4

Muchas gracias to Bart's Blog for this handy reference for svn branches in git. Apparently all I needed was to specify a remote branch when creating the git branch, e.g.,

git checkout -b git-topic-branch-foo foo

where foo is the name of the remote branch.