After upgrading Git to 1.5.4.2, I was having problems checking out projects from Apache’s subversion repository. When I would try to do something like: git svn clone –stdlayout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb Git would output: Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ Using higher level of URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/asyncweb => https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not [...]