This gist is extracted from wayback machine and is a blogpost by winterstream Submitted by winterstream on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 17:25
I use git-svn to interoperate with out Subversion repository at Sourceforge. I did the original checkout via HTTP and continued working like this until Sourceforge's recent site-wide SVN upgrade (from version 1.3 to 1.5). After the upgrade, I could no longer do Subversion commits (that is, git svn dcommit failed).
I had two options; I could: