Using TortoiseGit with svn-git to clone specific branches of SVN repository

Question

I have a SVN project with following architecture (empty trunk and tags )

https://svn-repo.com/svn/company
   +--my_project
   |  +--trunk (empty)
   |  +--branches
   |  |  +--my_branch
   |  |  +--my_branch2
   |  |  +--temp_branch1
   |  |  +--temp_branch2
   |  |  +--temp_branch3
   |  +-tags (empty)

I would like to use TortoiseGit to clone this repository into a git repository with branches my_branch and my_branch2 and being able to commit changes back to SVN.

I have been able to clone a single branch by not checking any boxes related to Trunk, Tags, Branch and putting the URL to the branch (eg https://svn-repo.com/svn/company/my_project/branches/my_branch ) and specifying the first SVN revision of the branch.

I have tried to put the URL https://svn-repo.com/svn/company/my_project and checking all the boxes but this failed each time.

Question 1 : How to clone the SVN repository with all its branches to Git through TortoiseGit?

Question 2 : What is the way (if it exists) to only keep certain branches in the Git repository (namely, removing all the branches temp_branchN )?

I found a bit of if using git-svn CLI (like this related topic ) but nothing relevant for TortoiseGit.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

1. You can't do it (in good way) in pure TortoiseGit
2. You have to edit [svn-remote] section in $GIT_DIR/config file by hand

Git-SVN doc mention some rare cases for Subversion repos and suggest possible solution: enumerating all needed (and only needed) branches

Since some SVN repositories are oddly configured with multiple projects glob expansions such those listed below are allowed:

 [svn-remote "project-a"] ... branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* branches = branches/release_*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/release_* branches = branches/re*se:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* ... 

Answer 2

Question 1 A mix of TortoiseGit + patch of config file (cf below)

Question 2 Based on Lazy Barger hints, I came up with the following flow

1. TortoiseGit clone with only a selection of the trunk (revision 12345 corresponding to the creation of the tunk)

2. .git/config file edited by hand to add the desired branches

The following shall be added in the svn-remote part

[svn-remote "svn"]
    url = https://myserver:8443/svn/WorkRoot
    fetch = my_project/trunk:refs/remotes/origin/trunk
    branches = my_project/branches/my_branch*:refs/remotes/branches/*

3. TortoiseGit SVN fetch to pull out the branches

The last command might take a while because it starts searching from revision 1.

4. Perform TortoiseGit Switch/Checkout to change the branch

Note: To perform the command equivalent to svn update , I use Git SVN Rebase and select the correct upstream corresponding to the remote branch (and not the trunk which is selected by default).

Hope it helps