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From: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: create branch from svn repos
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:25:19 +0100
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On 27 April 2010 21:59, Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881@gmail.com> wrote:
> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
> branches/forcing
> Did you intend to checkout 'svn/dir/b3' which can not be resolved as commit?
>
> so is what i want to do feasible?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ming

$ git help svn

Read the last bits on how to define svn remote branches in the .git/config
update your .git/config
and do

$ git svn init $same_top_level_svn_url
$ git svn fetch