Can Git-svn be used on large, branched repositories?

Question

I am trying to use Git as a frontend to a SVN repository in order to be able to use Git\'s nice features like simple branching, stashing etc.

The problem is that the SVN

Answer 1

Do you have symlinks in the SVN repo? If not, have you tried this setting:

svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround

This disables potentially expensive checks to workaround broken symlinks checked into SVN by broken clients. Set this option to "false" if you track a SVN repository with many empty blobs that are not symlinks. This option may be changed while git svn is running and take effect on the next revision fetched. If unset, git svn assumes this option to be "true".