Git as SVN client with multiple branches

If you are forced to use SVN, you can still use Git. Git is a great SVN client. When your SVN repository has multiple branches and you must work on them, Git can also handle this.

First you must define a new SVN remote in your Git repository. When you look into the file .git/config, you will find the following:

[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = svn+ssh://my-svn-repo
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn

This is the definition of the default SVN remote created by git svn clone svn+ssh://my-svn-repo. You can simply add the following bellow this default remote.

[svn-remote "svn-second-branch"]
        url = svn+ssh://my-second-svn-branch
        fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-second-branch

This adds a new SVN remote named svn-second-branch once you have fetched it with git svn fetch svn-second-branch, it will be available in Git with the name git-svn-second-branch.

If you want to check it out, run git checkout git-svn-second-branch -b my-local-branch.