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Git-svn creates a detached branch root

I migrated an svn repository's trunk to git. I then made some commits to the git repo. I am now migrating an old svn branch to the new git repo. To do this I added svn-remote.url and svn-remote.fetch config to .git/config. When I now do git svn fetch and subsequently checkout using git svn checkout I get detached tree in SourceTree:

Detached root

The right most purple branch is as if its without a root, whereas it should branch off just where the other branch is branching from.

Solution

  • From the comments it looks like the --no-metadata git-svn key was used which erases the data from which it could build proper tree. Don't use that key if you plan to keep svn synced in the future.