Sorry for spamming, got it working with the following changes: It turned out that removing the ignore paths entry for branches and tags did it the trick. Previously: git svn init -s --trunk='' --tags=tags/*/* --branches=branches --prefix=svn/ --ignore-paths="branches|tags|subrepo-a|subrepo-b|" <repo_url> "Working" git svn init -s --trunk='' --tags=tags/*/* --branches=branches --prefix=svn/ --ignore-paths="subrepo-a|subrepo-b|" <repo_url> I also had to change from --trunk='' to explicit --trunk='file:///home/repo/svn-repo/services/project/clients' or else it also created the branches and tags dirs. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Migrating-from-subversion-via-git-svn-contains-log-entry-but-not-the-file-change-in-the-branch-tp4997493p5004035.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html