You are correct about Tortoise in that it is too strict. I looked through their code and they have written their own patch program which keys off these Index: lines http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/TortoiseMerge/Patch.cpp I think it could go either way as to if git-svn creates a different format patch or tsvn accepts multiple formats, but I anticipated git-svn would be easier to extend so I started here. - 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