If you want to use Git as your versioning system, you shouldn't only migrate every repository from SVN to Git, but you should also use Git locally. The Git-svn command will help you do this. It so happens that your team doesn't want to change its versioning system, or a project is way too big to migrate on a new versioning system. So, Git has a solution for you; how about using Git features without anyone knowing or caring?
The following diagram explains how to use Git inside an SVN environment. When executing a Git command, the SVN environment will not notice it because the Git-svn command will convert all your commands.
We assume that you already have an SVN repository and you want to use Git locally. As a first step, clone the SVN repository using this command:
Erik@server:~$ git svn clone -s http://my_website.com/my_subversion_repo my_gitsvn_local
The -s option stands for standard layout, which means that your subversion layout...