Git and SVN on Windows

Question

I'm trying to run git for my local repository and use SVN for my central repository to a CodePlex project. I downloaded the most recent version of msysgit, but the SVN support doesn't appear to be working.

The following successfully initializes a new empty repository and then gets stuck:

git svn init https://myproject.svn.codeplex.com
git svn fetch

After attempting to perform the fetch, I get the following:

Error validating server certificate for 'https://myproject.svn.codeplex.com:443'
:
 - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
 - Hostname: *.svn.codeplex.com
 - Valid: from May 23 02:11:05 2009 GMT until May 23 02:11:05 2010 GMT
 - Issuer: redmond, corp, microsoft, com
 - Fingerprint: f0:89:78:18:47:70:e4:dc:27:01:27:9c:6f:44:4c:3f:8a:9b:ad:79
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p

As you can see, I try to permanently accept the certificate, but msysgit just sits and never performs the fetch.

Am I doing something wrong? Is the support not there? I found a similar Stack Overflow post from December. I'm not sure if the symptoms I'm experiencing are the same, or not.

Answer 1

I'm not really sure why, but it takes a pretty long time to come back from the prompt above that asks whether or not to accept the certificate. After waiting about 15 minutes, the operation did complete.

Answer 2

git-svn does not work well on windows in my experience. What I would advise is to put your git import on something like github or any other git hosting, and use "pure" git on windows. This assumes you have a unix (or at worse cygwin, which should work better than msysgit I guess) to do the git-svn updates. That's not ideal, obviously.