Are there any reasons I can't just use git to track changes to my svn checkout?

Question

I have gotten used to using git on some of my home projects and work projects to track the changes I make in my own folders. I would like to use it to track the changes I make

Answer 1

I've tracked largeish, very active SVN repositories (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, if you absolutely need to know) for a long time, no trouble at all. Didn't do anything in the direction of pushing changes, though, just used git to pack up my (minor) patches to report on their bug tracker. Only problem was that the initial clone took more than a day, IIRC. But then they migrated to git a while back...