Git Migration: github with svn access

[Geert Janssens]

On woensdag 9 november 2011, Yawar Amin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Christian Stimming
> 
> <christian at cstimming.de>wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > Same for me - I was able to "svn checkout" one of my other normal git
> > repos,
> > but with gnucash I, too, got "502 Bad Gateway". However, it came up with
> > a "trunk" and "branches" directory, so that I had to append "trunk" to
> > the URL
> > to get a useful source tree. For gnucash, this didn't change the problem,
> > though.
> 
> I think this is the issue I mentioned yesterday--you need a `master' branch
> in the Git repo to do a Subversion checkout.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Yawar

I'm tempted to try this out by manually adding a master branch in the main git 
repository on github, but I don't know if this would confuse the svn-git 
syncrhonisation we have currently.

Anyone know this ?

Geert