Git-svn creates a detached branch root

Question

I migrated an svn repository's trunk to git. I then made some commits to the git repo. I am now migrating an old svn branch to the new git repo. To do this I added svn-remote.url and svn-remote.fetch config to .git/config. When I now do git svn fetch and subsequently checkout using git svn checkout I get detached tree in SourceTree:

Detached root

The right most purple branch is as if its without a root, whereas it should branch off just where the other branch is branching from.

If you examine the first purple commit, does it have a parent? This will distinguish a real orphan from a GUI issue. — Useless, Mar 06 '15 at 17:42
@MykolaGurov As described [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3972103/269452) — aateeque, Mar 08 '15 at 16:29
means you used ` --no-metadata`, after which you should not be surprised git-svn cannot track branches imported afterwards as detached. — Mykola Gurov, Mar 08 '15 at 19:31

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '15 at 21:27

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From the comments it looks like the --no-metadata git-svn key was used which erases the data from which it could build proper tree. Don't use that key if you plan to keep svn synced in the future.

answered Mar 10 '15 at 21:27

Mykola Gurov

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Git-svn creates a detached branch root

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