I love git. Who doesn't? I'll tell you who: larger companies with an existing infastructure that revolves around SVN. Luckily you can still reap some of the git-benefits by adding svn-remote branches!

You can clone an entire SVN repo (trunk, branches, tags):

$ git svn clone https://myrepo.com/svn -T trunk -b branches -t tags

But sometimes we're in a hurry and only grab the trunk. What now? With the help of Ian Boston, I learned how to add remotes / branches after I've initialized my git-svn repo.

Adding Branches to an existing git-svn repo

1. Edit the .git/config to add an svn-remote:

   [core]  
        repositoryformatversion = 0  
        filemode = true  
        bare = false  
        logallrefupdates = true  
      [svn-remote "svn"]  
        url = https://myrepo.com/repos/projectName/trunk  
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn 
      [svn-remote "svn2"]  
        url = https://myrepo.com/repos/projectName/branches  
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-mybranch

2. Fetch the branch via terminal. "-r" followed immediately by a valid revision number will only fetch from that revision, but is optional. Say we wanted to fetch starting at revision 311 - So far so good? Don't believe me? Well fine, you can check to see if it worked by listing the branches.

   $ git svn fetch svn2 -r311  
   $ git branch -a

3. Create/Switch branches

   $ git checkout git-svn-mybranch  
   $ git checkout -b master-mybranch