Working locally with Git when main repository is SVN

Question

There is an open source project I want to checkout and contribute to. The main repository is SVN but I want to work in Git. Is this possible?

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Answer 1

If don't have, nor do you want to have, commit access to the SVN repository then a combination of git-svn and StGit might help. git-svn creates/updates a clone and stg maintains a series of patches on top of it (stg commands is from StGit Crash Course):

git svn clone ..

stg new invent-some-patch-id
...edit patch description...
...hack hack hack in the tree...
stg refresh
...possibly hack some more...
stg refresh    
..
stg mail

See StGIT Tutorial to get started.

NOTE: I haven't actually tried this workflow.