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This post is part of  a series on Git and Subversion . To see all the related posts, screencasts and other resources, please  click here .  This extends the posts where I explained how to set up a git-svn mirror for a single directory. NOTE: If you just want to use Git against a SVN repo on your own, stop reading ,now, and stick to the git-svn basics. However, if you want a setup where you can share a Git repository with colleagues and friends while still interfacing with Subversion, keep reading. I'll show how to set up a git-svn mirror for a standard Subversion project with trunk , branches and tags . It's a bit like the single directory mirror, but in order to keep all branches in sync, it's a bit more fiddling. The good part is that this setup enables us to cherry-pick commits from one branch to the other. This is slightly smoother than using svn merge . First of all, let's repeat how our Subversion and Git-repositories look physically (roughly the sa...

Next Monday I'm doing the Agile in a Year talk for the Java User Group in Cologne ( JUGCologne ). Unfortunately, the  the Xing event is already booked out, but for those who'll miss out, there's always the video recording of the last time I did the talk at FrOSCon . Oliver Gierke will be presenting Hades  afterwards. Should be good stuff. He held a great presentation right after me at GearConf . His topic (Eclipse Mylyn) was more soft, while mine was very techy. This time we've switched around :)