hi, is there any other means of upgrading to the new svn layout but cloning the repository afresh again? the error message i get is: $ git svn rebase Migrating from a git-svn v1 layout... Data from a previous version of git-svn exists, but .git/svn (required for this version (1.7.5.4) of git-svn) does not exist. Done migrating from a git-svn v1 layout Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history rupert -- 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