Small test script: rm -rf testrepo.svn testrepo.gitsvn svnadmin create testrepo.svn url=file://`pwd`/testrepo.svn svn mkdir -m "" "$url/trunk" "$url/branches" "$url/tags" rm -rf testrepo svn co "$url" testrepo cd testrepo/trunk mkdir -p foo/bar/ svn add foo/ svn commit -mx svn rm foo/bar/ svn commit -mx svn up mkdir -p baz/ svn add baz/ svn commit -mx echo x > fil.txt svn add fil.txt svn commit -mx cd ../.. git svn clone --stdlayout --preserve-empty-dirs "$url" testrepo.gitsvn result: Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/testrepo.gitsvn/.git/ r1 = 677463d6218c2229f81a8d891479435250cb9c87 (refs/remotes/trunk) r2 = f61c011cc800eaa9953026b8bd4534c9cc7825a8 (refs/remotes/trunk) D foo/bar/.gitignore D foo/bar/ W: -empty_dir: trunk/foo/bar r3 = b674724183fe4960b1b10813c41a91c5b22e805e (refs/remotes/trunk) r4 = 8b1c8fdbf9b43390efb37b053c868a5f40567249 (refs/remotes/trunk) A fil.txt Failed to strip path 'foo/.gitignore' ((?-xism:^trunk(/|$))) git version 1.8.2 -- -- 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