Hi, on Debian unstable the current version of libsvn-perl is 1.4.4dfsg1. With this version git-svn uses do_switch instead of do_update, which seems to not work properly, please see http://bugs.debian.org/430091 on how to reproduce the problem. The following also is showing a problem, as it blocks in read() after do_switch git svn clone -T trunk -b branches -t tags \ svn://bruce-guenter.dyndns.org/bglibs I'm not sure whether this is a git-svn or a subversion problem, thanks for your input. Regards, Gerrit. - 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