While working as a consultant at a company that uses svn, I needed to keep a branch in sync with the master branch. This turns out to be a lot of work. Problem was that it was not possible to just clone the repository using git svn. The clone failed after a while (I think due to the long connection time). First you might want to read up on it from this blog post. The command I used was something like: git svn clone -r 10327 --username=oskar.gewalli http://company.com/scm/svn/Project project --stdlayout[...]