OK, got it working. It had more to do with the module/trunk path than the -i. My svn projects are organized like: projectFoo -trunk -tags -branches So I initially used: git svnimport -C projectFoo -r -A svn-authors -I .gitignore -T projectFoo svn://jabba trunk which resulted in the empty working directory - with or without the -i. What ended up working is this: git svnimport -C projectFoo -r -A svn-authors -I .gitignore -T projectFoo -P trunk svn://jabba Cheers. -- Jing Xue - 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