Just for convenience, paste this in a git bash window: while true; do date; echo "Polling svn server..."; git svn fetch;echo "Sleeping."; sleep 300; done Then just refresh your fa…

Initial clone: git svn clone -T trunk/openlayers/ -t tags/openlayers/ -b branches/openlayers/ http://svn.openlayers.org/ openlayers.git "http://svn.openlayers.org/tags/openlayers/docs-2.8/" is in the …

Under git version 1.5.4.3, which as of writing is the current in ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron, trying to split out a folder from a git repo where the repo was an import from subversion (svn), and the folde…

I couldn't find anything exactly matching this on the net when I was figuring it out, so here's what I did. This is working against a remote svn (subversion) server, but applies even without one. On t…