Just to close the loop on this, I wasn't able to get git-svn to deal with this remote repository the way I wanted, so what I did is write some perl scripts to mirror the remote subversion repository locally and then use git-svn on that local "fixed" svn mirror. The hard part was mirroring the svn repo locally, primarily because the remote subversion server was denying access to the root. Also complicating matters was the dump files weren't completely loading properly. In case anyone else is needing to do this, I've published my perl script code that overcame all these issues. Here it is: https://github.com/ucidentity/failsafe-svn-sync -- 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