Here’s a quick tip for git-svn users struggling to find the perfect Google-foo for git-svn usernames.

If your svn username doesn’t match your local machine username, update the ~/.subversion/servers file to look something like this:

[groups] repo01 = svn.company.net [repo01] username = thaddeus.ternes

Also, here’s a little hack I put together for cloning an svn branch with git without pulling the entire repo history.

https://gist.github.com/tternes/e3e9ddd18a1210ec5228