This is quite simple on Linux. Here’s how…

• Install git, subversion and git-svn (the latter can be installed on Ubuntu using apt-get install git-svn)

• Acquire a copy of an svn repository (or just a folder in the repository) as a git repository locally

  git svn clone https://yoursubversionserver.com/svn/trunk/some_folder

  Note: You can choose to omit the ‘some_folder’ at the end if you want everything in trunk. You can also be more specific about which folder you are interested in, eg.

  git svn clone https://yoursubversionserver.com/svn/trunk/some_folder/wow/really/specifc/folder

• Change a file in the repository and use the usual git commit command to commit it to a local repository

• To push changes from your local git repo to the subversion repo use

  git svn dcommit

• To pull down changes from the remote subversion repo to your local git repository use

  git svn rebase

• Just to be clear - in the last step we really did use the git svn rebase command to get changes from the remote repository.

Do not use git pull. See the REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE section of the git-svn docs as to why

Do not use git clone/pull/merge/push on your local git repositories that are derived from a subversion repo. See the CAVEATS section of the git-svn docs as to why

More basic examples are also list at the bottom of the git-svn docs.

And if you want to see a great example of a git-svn workflow in action, check out Jérémie Laval’s blog post - Working on Mono with git-svn.